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I never said that, but I'll clarify: They are too big to fail because we have allowed them to become too big to fail.

• pitaj 8y ago
  They're too big to fail because politicians decided they were. Of course, they aren't actually too big to fail. In the financial crisis, if they hadn't bailed out the banks, they'd either be acquired by competitors, or go out of business and people would have actually learned their lessons to not take on excessively risky assets. Instead, the government bailed out the banks, essentially telling them that they should take on whatever risk they want, because they'll just be bailed out whenever they fail.