Ben Bernanke actually said...

I think it is extremely important that we address too big to fail, and this is one way to make banks take into account that their own size does impose a cost on the rest of society and make them respond to that.

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Bernanke emphasizes the need to tackle the issue of banks being too big to fail.

07/16/2012

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