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Too big to fail means too big to save

POSTED BY: SIGNYM
UPDATED: Wednesday, May 19, 2010 09:38
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Wednesday, May 19, 2010 9:38 AM

SIGNYM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.


From my favorite economist, Dr Doom himself, Nouriel Roubini. Some of his more trenchant quotes:
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If they're too big to fail, they're also becoming too big to be saved, too big to be bailed out, and too big to be managed. No CEO can monitor the activities of thousands of separate profit and loss statements, and the activities of thousands of different bankers and traders.


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... the model of the financial supermarket where within one institution you have commercial banking, investment banking, underwriting of securities, market-making and dealing, proprietary trading, hedge fund activity, private equity activity, asset management, insurance—this model ... creates massive conflicts of interest. If you look at the cases against Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley, leaving aside whether there was any fraud or illegal activity—that's for a court to decide—there is still a fundamental conflict of interest. These institutions are always on every side of every deal. That's an inherent conflict of interest that cannot be addressed with Chinese walls [internal company barriers between different aspects of its business].


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There are no benefits from these economies of scale and scope, as we've seen from the disasters at Citigroup, AIG and others.


Entire article

www.alternet.org/economy/146900/nouriel_roubini%3A_how_to_break_up_the
_banks%2C_stop_massive_bonuses%2C_and_rein_in_wall_street_greed
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