One large bank failure can threaten our entire economy, and because all the large banks are interconnected the failure of one threatens the failure of all. If large banks were forced to break up into smaller banks like "Ma Bell" they could not take huge risks knowing that the taxpayer would be there to bail them out once again like what was done in 2007-2008.
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