From The Community News – Armed with sleeping bags and signs, members of Occupy Delaware participated in their first Banksleep Protest on Monday, April 23, 2012. Banksleep, a “sleepful” protest, is the latest tactic used by Occupiers in cities such as Philadelphia, Washington DC and at OWS to protest economic inequities and the part the banking industry has played in creating this scenario.
https://www.facebook.com/breakupbofa
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/business-economy-financial-crisis/money-power-wall-street/top-fed-official-the-moment-is-now-to-break-up-big-banks/
The nation’s largest banks are “a perversion of capitalism” and “a clear and present danger to the U.S. economy.” The Dodd-Frank financial reform legislation passed in the wake of the crisis “may actually perpetuate an already dangerous trend of increasing banking industry concentration.”
http://dallasfed.org/fed/annual/index.cfm
Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas
Annual Report
2011 Annual Report
Choosing the Road to Prosperity
Why We Must End Too Big to Fail—Now
The too-big-to-fail institutions that amplified and prolonged the recent financial crisis remain a hindrance to full economic recovery and to the very ideal of American capitalism. It is imperative that we break up the big banks.