Maybe 'too big to fail' is just 'too big'

Courtesy Marketplace  Wed, 10/22/2008 - 11:29

Taxpayers are bailing out huge Wall Street banks because their collapse would spell doom for the financial system.

But commentator Robert Reich thinks it's odd to also allow those companies to consolidate and get even bigger.

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