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Unfortunately, this required rescuing many companies considered "too big to fail" that individually did not deserve to be saved.

Andwhile banks or carmakers can be too big to fail, "the days of every country in Europe having their own national airline are gone. "

If it had failed to do so, the flight to institutions deemed "too big to fail" would have become a Gadarene rush.

A year ago it was said that the euro zone could take care of two or three small countries but that Spain was too big to fail.

America's financial system is now dominated by a few dozen firms that are assumed to be too big to fail.

At a conference in London several leading bankers criticised new proposals for regulating banks that are "too big to fail" .

The SNB implicitly referred to the possibility of a collapse of one of the large banks in its analysis of the "too big to fail" problem.

But Bear Stearns was bailed out, creating a perception that if it was "too big to fail" , so were all its competitors.

Just as some financial institutions proved "too big to fail" , some Japanese suppliers are now revealed to be too crucial to do without.

Whatever the dent to national bravado, or to the free-enterprise ideology, the phrase "too big to fail" suddenly carried an American accent.

It may just be that this program got up a head of steam and was too big to fail.

Banks will no longer be allowed to rely on deposit insurance and being "too big to fail" as a basis for taking big bets, he says.

Smaller banks aren't "too big to fail" , requiring bailouts when they're mismanaged, and yet they make very important community loans.

Officials, however, seem to have decided that it is too big to fail.

Too big to fail does not mean big enough to pay competitive compensation despite poor performance.

The most insidious form of institution is the "too big to fail" bank, not the small, richly-rewarded partnership.

Another partial reason, of course, was that since banks were regarded as too big to fail, those risks were asymmetrical.

In the global economy of the moment, the United States itself is too big to fail.

And action to stop some banks from becoming "too big to fail" also now appears to have been deferred indefinitely.

Too big to fail banks must be broken up, just like the Trustbusters did in the early 20th Century.

Their importance to the global economy has made them too big to fail, or to control.

More likely, by institutionalising the concept of "too big to fail" , the scheme would aggravate the underlying problem of moral hazard.

Fourth, where businesses are too big to fail, the interests of the public must be protected by high minimum capital requirements.

Japan also avoided moral hazard by studiously avoiding the classification of any bank as 'too big to fail. '

It has long been recognised that those America's banks that are too big to fail are also too big to be managed.

Like the money-centre banks, the US itself is much "too big to fail" .

As lawmakers debated how to overhaul financial regulations, their mantra was that, if nothing else, the era of "too big to fail" was over.

As the failed chief executive of a bank that was judged too big to fail, Sir Fred is an accidental multimillionaire.

When some of these (small and medium-sized) institutions fail they will inevitably be absorbed by their too-big-to-fail counterparts.

But he doubts that approach 'will correct as much of the [too-big-to-fail] problem as some observers anticipate.

Regulation failed to cover the "shadow banking" sector and proved inadequate for the complex, cross-border "too big to fail" institutions.

Meanwhile, regulators struggle to devise a solution to the glaring problem that we now know such institutions to be too big to fail.

The whole corporate superstructure of our economy can be made "too big to fail, " beyond retrospective regrets or futile tinkering.

A business that is too big to fail cannot be run in the interests of shareholders, since it is no longer part of the market.

'What we have got to do is to eliminate the competitive advantage which is implicit in being designated as too big to fail, ' Mr.

"The Fed is seen as a vehicle for unfairness: when people see 'too big to fail' they see 'I'm too little to be helped'. "

And for all the concern about banks that are too big to fail, Georgia suffered, if anything, from a proliferation of small banks.

"Never again will the American taxpayer be held hostage by a bank that is too big to fail, " he said.

WestLB may not be the global investment bank it once dreamed of becoming, but it is still too big to fail.

It created the idea that they were too big to fail and that their executives and bondholders would be protected from their own mistakes.

The central bank would work with a proposed Financial Services Oversight Council to decide which companies are too big to fail.

Both gentlemen expressed support for a levy on banks to fund an international rescue fund for institutions deemed "too big to fail" .

and if institutions are going to get, quote, "too big to fail" so that the taxpayers will have to come in. . .

In other words, Goldman is too big to fail and would be bailed out by the US government if its balance sheet failed.

AS THE tab for bank bail-outs rises, the notion that a firm can be "too big to fail" has become almost too much to stomach.

Creative churn, America's staple diet (unless you're too big to fail), is not the Italian way. Sensual stasis is.

Any institution that does not want to be too big to fail can shrink through spin-offs and be eligible for the lower leverage ratio.

But Washington's primary concern was to shore up Citi, a global institution that defines the term "too big to fail" .

But bigger issues are at stake too, ones that are more political and philosophical in nature: Should any bank be too big to fail?

Understandably, there has been much discussion about the concept of "too big to fail" .

Another immediate challenge to the Fed's quasi-autonomous status is the issue of what Congress will do about the too-big-to-fail conundrum.

The lesson of the financial crisis, after all, is that just because something is "too big to fail" , does not mean that it will not.

Top government officials are struggling to address the growing too-big-to-fail problem throughout the financial system.

The SNB issued a number of recommendations, particularly relating to the problem of banks that are considered "too big to fail" .

What would be a reasonable premium for "too big to fail" insurance?

The best way to deal with the "too big to fail" problem is to abolish it, not to accommodate it.

Financial authorities have extended an implicit guarantee to all institutions that are too big to fail.

Addressing the problem of "too big to fail" is therefore the next central step in the reform programme.

Government rescues of banks considered "too big to fail" angered the public and helped fuel a conservative movement.

This would amount to compulsory recapitalisation and would cast the "too big to fail" issue in a different light.

A return to the status quo ante, with banks enjoying the benefits of "too big to fail" , does not seem likely.

Moreover, the plan is unlikely to help much in solving the too-big-to-fail problem.

Many banks are still "too big to fail" and the casino side of their activities remains mixed up with the mundane business of deposit-taking.

We'll never know if a company is too big to fail, unless somehow it does fail, and then it will no longer be too big to fail. Make it stop!

Their initial reflex was to propose the break-up of banks that were seen as "too big to fail" .

Mr. Bernanke wisely highlighted how creditors under priced lending to banks because institutions were considered too big to fail.

Politicians talk of consigning "too big to fail" to history, but investors and rating agencies regard it as alive and kicking.

The Danish mortgage banks are clearly too big to fail, so the problem of an implicit government guarantee for banks remains.

and because they knew they were too big to fail. And that, in the event of failure, the taxpayer would pick up the pieces.

Measures to limit the size of banks to avoid the too-big-to-fail problem need to be taken.

Henry Kaufman, a highly experienced observer of credit markets, suggests intense scrutiny of banks deemed "too big to fail" .

Too big to fail, but big enough to exert political influence.

Britain's Financial Services Authority recently put forward its measures to rein in banks that are "too big to fail" .

For the most part, though, "Too Big To Fail" is too good to put down.

One senior administration official said proposed new rules are designed to combat 'too big to fail' institutions.

Too big to fail once more blocks the market.

To judge from the current economic policy debate, especially in the US, banks that are too big to fail continue to prevail.

"Too big to fail" policies mean that the large banks can raise money more cheaply because everyone knows they are safe counterparties.

It is the ultimate "too big to fail" global relationship, said Andy Rothman, an analyst in Shanghai for the investment bank CLSA.

"Too big to fail" is a powerful barrier to entry, because no newcomer to an industry begins by being too big to fail.

It was in the belief that they were too big to fail that the government, in September 2008, offered a blanket guarantee to bank creditors.

Systemically important institutions are not the same as too big to fail.

Companies were deemed "too big to fail" , and excess capacity (particularly in the financial sector) was kept alive.

Most people in the tea-party movement don't believe in the concept of too big to fail.

The purpose of resolution is to ensure that risky strategies fail before they become too big to fail.

That, even if you are too big to fail, being big may only increase the chance of your messing up.

But our intuition is true: it is necessary to have strict limits on banks deemed "too big to fail" .

Since many of these banks are deemed too big to fail, taxpayers are risk-bearers of last resort.

Now the emergency is over, the full horror of a banking system that is too big to fail is becoming ever more apparent.

With Sunday's deal, the EU would signal that even the smallest members of the euro zone are too big to fail.

Eradicating the too-big-to-fail problem should be the main policy goal.

And it may have missed a chance to rein in its largest financial institutions, many of whom remain too big to fail and are getting bigger.

The latter are in trouble partly because some banks are too big to fail and too big to save.

The view that large and complex financial institutions are too big to fail may be wrong.

If Greece, Ireland, and Portugal are too big to fail, Spain and Italy are too big to save.

In my view, the too-big-to-fail issue can best be understood in the broader context of the financial crisis itself.

How long will the US economy live with a banking system in which some institutions are too big to fail?

Such institutions exist, call them too big to fail, systemically important, Tier 1 financial holding companies or whatever.

The House bill creates a Financial Stability Council to identify and regulate firms that are deemed too big to fail.

Necessary as this was, we still feel the ill-effects of so many banks being judged too big to fail.

We don't have a credible way of getting out of the Too Big To Fail trap.

We are painfully learning that the world's mega-banks are too complex to manage, too big to fail and too hard to restructure.

While he declined to comment on current monetary policy, he mentioned 'too big to fail' as an example.

We would have moved toward solving the problem if we had broken up the large institutions where they are not too big to fail.

This consolidation of the elites has in turn kept alive the "too big to fail" problem.

A better alternative would be to claw back the subsidy banks get through being too big to fail.

The idea that an institution was "too big to fail" used to sound reassuring.

These institutions are regarded as too big to fail. They thus pose a threat to financial stability and to the market's competitive process.

Why does the bill not limit the size of banks so none can again become "too big to fail" ?

As a result, investors, lenders and management could believe, in almost every case, their institutions were "too big to fail" .

The objection is not the fiscal cost. It is that a limited number of large, complex and "too-big-to-fail" institutions would then emerge.

Critics say the law does doing nothing to solve "too big to fail" .

'The market clearly perceives that there is a too-big-to-fail guarantee, ' Ms. Warren said.

Greek debt is such a big problem because a default might make a bank that is too big to fail, to actually fail.

The public bears the cost of too big to fail.

The true solution to the too-big-to-fail problem requires more radical choices.

and, second, no profit-seeking private institution can remain too big to fail.

It is not so much that they are too big to fail.

Should firms have to be smaller so that they are not "too big to fail" ?

'Never again will the American taxpayer be held hostage by a bank that is too big to fail, ' Mr. Obama said Thursday.

Extra rules may be needed for firms in the "too big to fail" category.

Doubts about Italy, an economy too big to fail, will only add to the volatility.

This has been a long time coming. . . there's no turning back now and this is too big to fail.

And forced mergers and rescues have created some banks that are unambiguously too big to fail.

And there will be new rules to end the perception that any firm is 'too big to fail'.

Meanwhile there are two other ways to mitigate the risks flowing from banks that are seen as too big to fail.

They do not have the benefit of being "too big to fail. "

Huang wasn't too big to fail, was he? Too bad he couldn't hire a lobbying firm and buy off the government like these guys do here.

"Never again will the American taxpayer be held hostage by a bank that is too big to fail" , he thundered.

Are living wills really the answer to banks that are too big to fail?

These firms reached their present size through the subsidies they received because they were too big to fail.

Neither a democratic society nor a market economy can accept the notion that a private business is "too big to fail" .

Some economists argue that many banks are not only too big to fail, but too big to save.

But "too-big-to-fail" is becoming the top priority.

In contrast to Greece and Portugal, Spain (and even more so Italy) are indeed 'too big to fail. '

Governments have been rescuing companies they consider too big to fail, such as Citigroup and General Motors.

Frederic S. Mishkin, a former Federal Reserve governor from 2006 to 2008, for one, said there could be no turning back on too big to fail.

Remember that discredited term "too big to fail" ?

The most difficult issue was Too Big to Fail, and that was not dealt with.

But we also need an exit strategy from too big to fail. It is simply too costly to continue.

The starting point has to be with "too big to fail" .

But identity theft was a problem in America long before phrases like "too big to fail" entered our vocabulary.

"Too big to fail" is an unstable system.

This, in turn, exacerbates the "too big to fail" problem.

This is because monetary policy decisions will fall most heavily on institutions that are not too big to fail.

Second, banks will benefit if they are deemed too big to fail, and thus enjoy low funding costs.

Some read: 'No such thing as too big to fail' and 'Evict the banks. '

What, if anything, can be done about banks that are too big to fail?

Is the definition of companies that are "too big to fail" getting broader? Or are some industries simply more important than others?

Even if they are too big to fail, they are not too big to be reorganised.

Your health is not "too big to fail" .

It was considered too big to fail.

But if a company is too big to fail, should it be considered too big to exist?

Too big to fail but one big failure nonetheless.

One might even describe it as too big to fail.

It is why financial institutions must never be too big to fail.

Some US politicians have suggested that it ends the "too big to fail" problem but that is naive.

Consider the "too big to fail" problem.

And one day after Lehman's failure, the government decided that the huge insurer A. I. G. was too big to fail.

Firms seen as 'too big to fail' can enjoy lower borrowing costs based on the expectation that creditors will be backed by the government.

Here in the nation that is too big to fail, as long as the bad loans don't overwhelm the good, the waste is tolerable.

Thus, if we solve the too-big-to-fail problem, excessive risk-seeking will go away.

Too big to fail, too big to save.

Treat a bank that becomes too big to fail like a utility, and it will make less money.

It may be inevitable that some banks are too big to fail; but the lesson of Citi is that they can also be too big to manage.

and what to do about those banks that are too big to fail?

Regulators and investors have focused on too-big-to-fail banks such as Bank of America Corp. and Citigroup Inc.

The too big to fail get bigger and bigger.

Because banks are too big to fail, it is too expensive for them to raise more equity to become safer.

Hedge funds are not too big to fail .

The FCIC is considering the phenomenon of "too big to fail" institutions such as AIG and Lehman.

Like many of our nation's financial institutions, I am simply too big to fail.

The G20's enforcement agency found that 29 banks globally are too big to fail.

"TOO big to fail, too shit to buy" is the way some Citigroup insiders describe their employer.

If It's Too Big to Fail, Is It Too Big to Exist?

Another possible analysis is that ShoreBank suffered because it was not seen as "too big to fail. "

If "too big to fail" is incompatible with democracy, it also destroys the dynamism that is thecentral achievement ofthemarket economy.

But how big is too big to fail?

One thing we have learnt in the past year is that some banks are definitely too big to fail.

Too-big-to-fail institutions, however, should have a higher ratio of 10 to 12 per cent.

Too Big to Fail?

We are the 99%, and we are too big to fail.

But is it necessarily true that banks remain too big to fail?

And, critically, they can borrow cheaply because they are deemed too big to fail.

for example, Yucho, which is considered far too big to fail, might find itself more attractive to depositors as a result.

George, the real problem here is this whole concept of too big to fail.

II. Ending "Too Big to Fail" Through Enhanced Supervision, Higher Capital Levels, and Market Reforms

No wonder western finance leaders keep muttering that the "too big to fail" problem remains;

III. Ending "Too Big to Fail" Through the Orderly Liquidation Authority

IV. Ending "Too Big to Fail" through International Reforms

A protester critical of banks that are 'too big to fail' holds a sign in Zuccotti Park [EPA]

'Too Big To Fail' Revisited