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"This country can no longer afford companies that are 'too big to fail.' If a company is so large that its failure would cause systemic harm to our economy, if it is too big to fail, then it is too big to exist". Explain.

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In a 273 word solution, the response provides a little bit of history about anti-trust followed by some opinions and suggestions about why we have 'too big to fail' companies and how they might be reorganized.

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I'm inclined to agree, and I wonder if that discussion was any part of the anti-trust legislation effected with the Sherman Act of 1890. The anti-trust laws were designed to prevent conspiracy in the restraint of trade. Monopolies were considered to be a felony and Standard Oil of New Jersey was one of the first notable cases decided in 1911. IBM in the 1930s was another huge case; ATT in 1983 and then Microsoft ...

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