The term “too big to fail” became popular when a U.S. Congressman used it in a 1984 Congressional hearing. The theory behind “too big to fail” is that some financial institutions are vital to the economy because they are so big that if they were to fail that the economy would be in a disastrous state and therefore people believe that the government should step in and help support and save these financial institutions when they face problems. (Investopedia) I believe that this is right in assuming that the financial institutions are vital to the economy but I also believe that it is a waste of government and tax payers money to keep bailing out the big financial institutions every time they need to be bailed out. The solution that I and many other people believe to help this be less of a problem is to break up the bigger financial institutions into smaller ones.
In my opinion the government spends way too much money (taxpayers money) to make sure that the bigger institutions do not fail and have a huge negative affect on the economy. The way that many people, myself included, think the government should handle this is to break the bigger institutions up into smaller ones that way we can still let the institutions go bankrupt and not have it effect our economy in a big way.
In previous years the big financial institutions that are “too big to fail” have come to realize that they can “cheat” the system and make big money on it by making poor decisions and knowing that they will be bailed out without having any responsibly for their actions. And when they do it they also escape jail time for such action because of the fear that if a criminal case was filed against any one of the so called “too big to fail” financial institutions it...
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...reaking the institutions up are a good thing for our economy in a way everyone can understand it. If no one stands up and starts to change things nothing will ever change, our generation can be the one to step up and say no to following in the footsteps of past generations by putting a stop to our culture of debt and using our money wisely, because if we do not do this nothing will ever get better. We need to be the ones that stands up and make a change in our economy for the better.
Works Cited
http://www.investopedia.com/terms/t/too-big-to-fail.asp
http://www.sanders.senate.gov/newsroom/recent-business/2013/04/09/break-up-big-banks
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/taibblog/owss-beef-wall-street-isnt-winning-its-cheating-20111025
http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2013/09/12/sen-warren-congress-needs-to-act-on-too-big-to-fail/?KEYWORDS=too+big+to+fail
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scale depressions and how nations like the United States could best control the banks while still
...e in the coming years. It is only by this kind of concerted and thoughtful effort that the nation can avoid serious disruptions in the economy, as well as in society as a whole.
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