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WILMARTH<br />
4/1/2011 1:11 PM<br />
ARTHUR E. WILMARTH, JR.*<br />
The Dodd-Frank Act: A Flawed and<br />
Inadequate Response to the Too-Bigto-Fail<br />
Problem<br />
I. Introduction ........................................................................... 953<br />
II. The Severity and Persistence of the Financial Crisis ............ 957<br />
III. LCFIs Played Key Roles in Precipitating the Financial<br />
Crisis ...................................................................................... 963<br />
A. LCFIs Originated Huge Volumes of Risky Loans and<br />
Helped to Inflate a Massive Credit Boom That<br />
Precipitated the Crisis .................................................... 963<br />
B. LCFIs Used Inflated Credit Ratings to Promote the<br />
Sale of Risky Structured-Finance Securities .................. 967<br />
C. LCFIs Promoted an Unsustainable Credit Boom That<br />
Set the Stage <strong>for</strong> the Financial Crisis ............................. 970<br />
D. LCFIs Retained Exposures to Many of the Hazards<br />
Embedded in Their High-Risk Lending ......................... 971<br />
E. While Other Factors Contributed to the Financial<br />
Crisis, LCFIs Were the Most Important Private-<br />
Sector Catalysts <strong>for</strong> the Crisis ........................................ 975<br />
IV. Government Bailouts Demonstrated That LCFIs Benefit<br />
from Huge TBTF Subsidies ................................................... 980<br />
V. The Dodd-Frank Act Does Not Solve the TBTF Problem .... 986<br />
A. Dodd-Frank Modestly Strengthened Existing<br />
Statutory Limits on the Growth of LCFIs But Did<br />
Not Close Significant Loopholes ................................... 988<br />
B. Dodd-Frank Establishes a Special Resolution Regime<br />
<strong>for</strong> Systemically Important Financial Institutions But<br />
Allows the FDIC to Provide Full Protection <strong>for</strong><br />
Favored Creditors of Those Institutions ......................... 993<br />
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