Ben Bernanke actually said...

We need to think hard going forward how we are going to address that problem, but right now, we are in the middle of the crisis.

Bernanke emphasizes the urgency of addressing the 'too big to fail' issue during the financial crisis.

02/23/2009

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'Too big to fail,' has been sometimes called a policy or a doctrine. It is not a policy; it is a problem.

It is imperative on all of us as the policymakers, particularly the Congress which is responsible for fiscal policy, to make sure that we do...

Then they would have to avail themselves of the Treasury's backstop.

We are very focused--like a laser beam, if I may--on this issue of the exit and making sure that we have price stability in the medium term.