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Orrex

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13. Well, then that wasn't an answer
Wed Apr 6, 2016, 09:55 AM
Apr 2016

If my question was "how can it be done," then your answer is "it can be done in many ways."

Terrific! Let's have some specifics. And it would be helpful to bear in mind the political climate we face today, and how it's nothing at all like the political climate that existed 30+ years ago.

When the Bell System was broken up, some people liked it, and some didn't. The point is that that enabled the telecommunications revolution we all now live in.
Actually, the point is that the break-up resulted in mega-corporations that are much more powerful, influential and monopolistic than good ol' Ma Bell ever was.

So if "the answer" is that we can break up banks like we broke up Bell, then my response is to ask if why we'd want to duplicate that dubious result.

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