{"id":33156,"date":"2013-04-12T10:41:32","date_gmt":"2013-04-12T16:41:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/04\/12\/whats-radical-is-someone-is-standing-up-to-big-banks.html"},"modified":"2013-04-13T08:55:55","modified_gmt":"2013-04-13T14:55:55","slug":"whats-radical-is-someone-is-standing-up-to-big-banks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/04\/12\/whats-radical-is-someone-is-standing-up-to-big-banks.html","title":{"rendered":"What's radical is someone is standing up to big banks"},"content":{"rendered":"
Require banks to finance more of their business with shareholder equity, rather than simply borrowing more and more against their deposits and trusting that the government will consider them "too big to fail"? Especially bigger banks? \u00a0Yup, that's pretty radical. And that's a good thing, as even Bloomberg's editors realize.<\/div>\n

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Require banks to finance more of their business with shareholder equity, rather than simply borrowing more and more against their deposits and trusting that the government will consider them "too big to fail"? Especially bigger banks? \u00a0Yup, that's pretty radical. And that's a good thing, as even Bloomberg's editors realize. 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