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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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