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Friday, August 28, 2009

Bailouts Make Banks Bigger


“When the credit crisis struck last year, federal regulators pumped tens of billions of dollars into the nation’s leading financial institutions because the banks were so big that officials feared their failure would ruin the entire financial system. Today, the biggest of those banks are even bigger.” (Washington Post, Friday)

No surprise there.

FEE Timely Classic
“Commercial Banking in a Free Society” by Steven Horwitz


  • Sheldon Richman is the former editor of The Freeman and a contributor to The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics. He is the author of Separating School and State: How to Liberate America's Families and thousands of articles.