CSPAN3 Key Capitol Hill Hearings July 21, 2014
The bigger banks that were diversified didnt fail. We did it anyway. The big banks didnt want to do it because it was a cross subsidy to the small state banks. The savings loan refused to go along but they refused to take their own and ensured next year. The second thing is we tax equity before you can pay the equity holders. This is a huge incentive for all the banks. To leverage as much as possible. And so the bank capital went down from 20 to 5 , the regulatory minimum, immediately. And those sentives still exist today. So in the postwar period, america was on the winning side of the war. W...