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The Big Banks: Background, Deregulation, Financial Innovation And Too Big To Fail, Charles W. Murdock
The Big Banks: Background, Deregulation, Financial Innovation And Too Big To Fail, Charles W. Murdock
Charles W. Murdock
Summary: The Big Banks: Background, Deregulation, Financial Innovation and Too Big to Fail
The U.S. economy is still reeling from the financial crisis that exploded in the fall of 2008. This article asserts that the big banks were major culprits in causing the crisis, by funding the non-bank lenders that created the toxic mortgages which the big banks securitized and sold to unwary investors. Paradoxically, banks which were then too big to fail are even larger today.
The article briefly reviews the history of banking from the Founding Fathers to the deregulatory mindset that has been present since 1980. It …