In banking, is bigger always better?

Courtesy Marketplace  Tue, 09/30/2008 - 12:30

Wachovia, WaMu and Merrill Lynch have all been bought up by other banks, meaning there's now a lot more money in a lot fewer hands.

Marketplace's Jeremy Hobson reports.


 

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