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Elizabeth Warren: 'Too Big To Fail' Is Worse Than Before Financial Crisis

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WASHINGTON -- Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) warned in a speech Tuesday that the problem of banks considered "too big to fail" has only gotten worse since the 2008 financial crisis, potentially sowing the seeds of a future crisis.
"Today, the four biggest banks are 30 percent larger than they were five years ago. And the five largest banks now hold more than half of the total banking assets in the country," Warren said in a keynote address at a conference on the future of financial reform put on by the Roosevelt Institute, a think tank. "Who would have thought five years ago, after we witnessed firsthand the dangers of an overly concentrated financial system, that the 'too big to fail' problem would only have gotten worse?"

Warren urged the passage of a new Glass-Steagall Act that would separate commercial and investment banking. The Depression-era legislation was repealed in 1999 with huge bipartisan majorities, allowing depository institutions to undertake riskier securities trading. Warren, along with Sens. John McCain (R-Ariz.) and Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.) have called to revive the legislation, but it stands little chance of passing.



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This is an outrage. We went the total wrong direction on this. Instead of ending this too big to fail ****, its gotten worse! We need to bring back Glass Stegal.
 
Read more @: Elizabeth Warren: 'Too Big To Fail' Is Worse Than Before Financial Crisis

This is an outrage. We went the total wrong direction on this. Instead of ending this too big to fail ****, its gotten worse! We need to bring back Glass Stegal. [/FONT][/COLOR]

No, we learned you can create TRILLIONS out of thin air, give it to billionaires (so you don't deprive them of their personal fortunes) and use the magic money to heal all wounds.

Welcome to the NEW New World Order.
 
We should have punished the companies that damaged the economy instead of giving them more gifts and more power. The people who ran them should be in jail. The pilfered money should have been returned to the people it was stolen from. The companies should have been either dissolved or turned over from their corrupt owners down the chain within the company, or liquidated and distributed among the employees.

Hurting the country, especially on such a large scale, for one's own gain... that should be punished. Severely.
 
I find it very sad that people think that not having the Glass-Steagall Act is actually a problem. If you don't want banks to be too big to fail you might want to review laws that went down in the early 20th century and after.
 
Read more @: Elizabeth Warren: 'Too Big To Fail' Is Worse Than Before Financial Crisis

This is an outrage. We went the total wrong direction on this. Instead of ending this too big to fail ****, its gotten worse! We need to bring back Glass Stegal. [/FONT][/COLOR]

The Dems won't even bring back Glass-Stegal. If they did, the government couldn't force the banks to give a bus driver an eight-hundred-thousand dollar home loan.

I believe, ny friend, that you will always be disappointex as long you expect the government to fix a problem.
 
The Dems won't even bring back Glass-Stegal. If they did, the government couldn't force the banks to give a bus driver an eight-hundred-thousand dollar home loan.

I believe, ny friend, that you will always be disappointex as long you expect the government to fix a problem.

Well you see the ones calling for Glass-Stegal to come back are the dems..... So your whole post makes no sense.
 
We should have punished the companies that damaged the economy instead of giving them more gifts and more power. The people who ran them should be in jail. The pilfered money should have been returned to the people it was stolen from. The companies should have been either dissolved or turned over from their corrupt owners down the chain within the company, or liquidated and distributed among the employees.

Hurting the country, especially on such a large scale, for one's own gain... that should be punished. Severely.

You can't punish people for obeying the law.

If you want to punish someone for harming the country, you can start with the politicians that pressured these banks ti make all those worthless loans.
 
Well you see the ones calling for Glass-Stegal to come back are the dems..... So your whole post makes no sense.

The Dems has total control. Why didn't they do it?
 
The Dems has total control. Why didn't they do it?

Yea they have total control...
I think you might of forgot about one chamber of congress...
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We should have punished the companies that damaged the economy instead of giving them more gifts and more power. The people who ran them should be in jail. The pilfered money should have been returned to the people it was stolen from. The companies should have been either dissolved or turned over from their corrupt owners down the chain within the company, or liquidated and distributed among the employees.

Hurting the country, especially on such a large scale, for one's own gain... that should be punished. Severely.

I feel the same about government and the "war" on poverty
 
Yea they have total control...
I think you might of forgot about one chamber of congress...
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They passed Obamascare without a single vote. Glass-Steagal should have been a piece of cake. Why do you think there was no attempt?
 
Read more @: Elizabeth Warren: 'Too Big To Fail' Is Worse Than Before Financial Crisis

This is an outrage. We went the total wrong direction on this. Instead of ending this too big to fail ****, its gotten worse! We need to bring back Glass Stegal. [/FONT][/COLOR]

Weird but wasn't Dodd-Frank suppose to address this?

http://www.banking.senate.gov/publi...Street_Reform_comprehensive_summary_Final.pdf

Why yes, yes it was...and just how much support did Warren's opposing party give to this legislation...? And NOW you expect it to change?
 
...We need to bring back Glass Stegal.

Even then it will probably not be enough to address YOUR concerns:

Beginning in the 1970s and 1980s, requests for approval to engage in a greater universe of securities activities were largely granted by the OCC and the FRB, and, in most cases, have been approved by courts. By the time that the GLBA was enacted in 1999, the FRB had authorized certain BHCs and their subsidiaries to underwrite and deal in an array of bank-ineligible securities, including municipal bonds, commercial paper, mortgage-backed securities and other consumer-related securities, corporate debt securities, and corporate equity securities.21 In addition to underwriting and dealing activities, the FRB also approved other securities activities such as the provision of investment advice,22 the brokering of securities,23 and others. The FRB promulgated the list of permissible nonbanking activities at 12 C.F.R. § 225.28(b).
pg 4
http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R41298.pdf
 
They passed Obamascare without a single vote. Glass-Steagal should have been a piece of cake. Why do you think there was no attempt?

Because of Dodd-Frank.....
 
Read more @: Elizabeth Warren: 'Too Big To Fail' Is Worse Than Before Financial Crisis

This is an outrage. We went the total wrong direction on this. Instead of ending this too big to fail ****, its gotten worse! We need to bring back Glass Stegal. [/FONT][/COLOR]


Warren's such a partisan tool.

Glass Steagal ? Right, she left something out.

SEC Charges Former Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac Executives with Securities Fraud; Release No. 2011-267; December 16, 2011
 
Because in 1999 it was repealed.

Yes, you're right. Did you read the link I provided? If so you noticed that the relevant portions of GS to your supposition had long been 'weakened' by the FRB (who under GS had the authority to make these 'adjustments')...PRIOR TO THE REPEAL (GLBA). We can only presume that these portions, sections 20 & 32 (?), wouldn't be enforced again.
 
You can't punish people for obeying the law.

If you want to punish someone for harming the country, you can start with the politicians that pressured these banks ti make all those worthless loans.

Are you familiar with the history of Glass-Steagall, what it meant to accomplish, how well it worked as designed, and the history of its repeal, including the players in that repeal?
 
Because in 1999 it was repealed.

By a Dem Prez and Congress.

I wish we had 10 more Senators like Warren. She's great. She actually has the concerns of the American people at heart. Most others have the concerns of Wall STreet and the military industrial complex at heart.
 
You blindly support their every decision...

:lamo:lamo
Oh god no no no no no.
Im guessing you havent seen my posts on taxes, foreign policy, social cuts... I mean hell have you even asked me what kind of healthcare system im in favor of. Ill tell you its not what the ACA brings us.
 
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