Sandy Weill, Citigroup's ex-CEO, does an about-face on big banks »

Speaking on CNBC’s “Squawk Box,” the 79-year-old Weill appeared to shock the show’s anchors when he said that consumer banking units should be split from riskier investment banking units. That would mean dismembering Citigroup as well as other big U.S. banks, like JPMorgan Chase and Bank of America.

It’s an idea that’s traditionally more in line with the banking industry’s harshest critics, not its founding fathers. It’s an ironic twist coming from an empire-builder who nursed Citigroup into a behemoth. And it’s directly opposed to the stance of the industry’s current leaders, like JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon, who have been trying to convince regulators and lawmakers of just the opposite, that big banks do not need to be broken up. 

if Reagan was President still, he’d have called for the break-up of the big banks already.  let AT&T be the lesson.

(Source: ericmortensen)

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   if Reagan was President still, he’d have called for the break-up of the big banks already. let AT&T be the lesson.

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