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Michael S. Barr: Fundamentally, we must end 'too big to fail' as an approach for dealing with the largest financial firms when they are…

On the recordOctober 21, 2009
Fundamentally, we must end 'too big to fail' as an approach for dealing with the largest financial firms when they are failing.
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Michael S. Barr

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Barr argues for a resolution process for failing large financial firms.

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