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Poparł zamiary administracji zwiększenia nadzoru nad sektorem finansowym, w szczególności rozwiązanie problemu "za duży,żeby mógł upaść". Podkreślił, że ostatnie zyski banków miały miejsce dzięki pieniądzom podatników.
He said financial companies have benefited from an “aura of government support,” as well as programs to guarantee debt, backstop commercial-paper issuance and “support weaker financial institutions that were their counterparties.”
In the government’s bailout of American International Group Inc., $105 billion flowed to U.S. states and banks including Goldman Sachs and Bank of America Corp., AIG said in March.
Summers repeated the Obama administration’s call for stricter regulation of financial firms that may be considered “too big to fail.” Those banks and other companies should face higher capital requirements and limits on leverage, which would essentially tax their large and interconnected status, he said.
“We’re very focused on the ‘too big to fail’ problem,” Summers said. He declined to comment on a proposal by Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. Chairman Sheila Bair to slap fees on the biggest financial holding companies because it hasn’t been released yet.