The reform of state industry, and most directly related to that, the banking sector, is enormously daunting.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The financial services industry is a ward of the state.
Banking's a sexy industry! Creative - it's dynamic, it's global, it's fast-moving, you bring a lot of talented people together!
The connection which formerly existed between the Government and banks was in reality injurious to both, as well as to the general interests of the community at large.
You can't fall back on the private sector and say, 'You take care of the nation's banking system.' That's a fundamental function of the government, the Federal Reserve, the Treasury and the FDIC, etc. All of those agencies have a major role to play there.
It's extremely important for our banks to have more capital, higher quality capital.
If a bank's too big so that it can't fail without hurting our economy, well then, it's too big.
The banking collapse was caused, more than anything, by bad government policy and the total failure of bad regulation, rather than by greed.
There's a loss of faith in the banking system that for so long has been the backbone of prosperity and growth.
As much as the banking system may not be terribly popular, it is an essential part of the economy.
I happen to know a bit about banking.
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