Tuesday, March 11, 2014

Break Up the Banks, Raise Their Capital Requirements

Just read two articles related to the new focus of this blog.

Ed Kilgore at Political Animal offers this on breaking up banks that are "too big to fail":
http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/political-animal-a/2014_03/can_anything_short_of_breaking049437.php

Kevin Drum at Mother Jones has his say about the need for higher capital requirements:
http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2014/03/europeans-unhappy-over-high-american-capital-standards