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Here’s Why Citibank Should Have Been Allowed to Fail in 2008

CUT IT LOOSE

Conservative authors James Freeman and Vern McKinley argue in a new book that ‘too big to fail’ is the first of several lousy reasons to prop up a bank.

Scott Porch
Scott Porch
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