It Hasn’t Always Been This Way…And It Doesn’t Have To Keep Being This Way.

Ten banks now hold 54% of our financial assets. This isn’t just “the way it is” — this has been a methodical and rapid corporate consolidation in the global race to become “too big to fail” over the past 20 years.

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Sara Critchfield

May 1, 2012

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