Plotting the Number of Banks: Is the Goal One "TBTF" Bank?

Reader Tim Wallace sent in a spreadsheet on the total number of banks.



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Whatever happened to the idea that something needs to be done about "Too Big to Fail Banks"?

Consolidation numbers do not tell the full story, but the largest banks do keep getting bigger in the slow but steady march towards one bank.

Mike "Mish" Shedlock