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4. Bank of America Poses a Grave Threat to U.S. Financial Stability PETITION

http://www.citizen.org/bank-of-america-grave-threat-petition


Petition Calling on Federal Reserve and Financial Stability Oversight Committee to Break Up Bank of America

January 25, 2012 — Bank of America, the second-largest bank holding company in the U.S., should be broken up and reformed, Public Citizen said in a petition sent today to the Federal Reserve and the Financial Stability Oversight Council. Regulators should to use authority granted by section 121 of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act to reform Bank of America into a set of smaller, simpler and safer institutions. Bank of America, which holds assets equal to roughly one-seventh of the country’s gross domestic product, is too large and complex to manage or regulate properly, the petition said. Moreover, its financial condition is poor and could deteriorate rapidly.