Small Banks Having Trouble Competing with Bailed Out Banks

FDIC chief: Small banks can’t compete with bailed-out giants
As the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. braces for the 100th bank failure this year — the most since 1992 — Bair warned that small community banks are struggling to compete against behemoths such as Citigroup and Bank of America. The reason: Last year’s $700 billion bank bailout proved that the federal government is willing to spend whatever it takes to keep the biggest banks from going under.
” ‘Too big to fail’ has become worse,” Bair told USA TODAY. “It’s become explicit when it was implicit before. It creates competitive disparities between large and small institutions, because everybody knows small institutions can fail. So it’s more expensive for them to raise capital and secure funding.”
The left-leaning Center for Economic and Policy Research last month found that banks with more than $100 billion in assets paid 1.15% for funds, and all others paid 1.93% late last year and early this year. That amounted to an annual subsidy worth up to $34.1 billion for the 18 biggest bank companies.
Too big to fail is too big to exist. The actions to provide massive taxpayer bailouts to banks deemed too big to fail so that they could pay out billions in bonuses to those who failed so completely in managing their banks has been a continuing example of how bad an idea corporate welfare is. Not only are those given the huge bailouts just looting those payments for their friends much of the rest was just forwarded onto other big financial institutions (that had made bad bets in the unregulated financial markets they lobbied for) to have worthless financial instruments payoff with billions from taxpayer welfare payments to them.
If we allow the continual increase in anti-competitive behavior by financial institution to be encouraged by the politicians they provide with huge payments we are going to have much bigger problems than we have seen so far.
If you have accounts with these mega welfare financial institutions: close them. Move to some other institution that can support itself and does not abuse the taxpayers with support from “your” politician.
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