On October 16, 2013, TCH’s Paul Saltzman and Doug Elliott of the Brookings Institution successfully argued against the motion ”Break Up the Big Banks” at the Intelligence Squared Debate, an Oxford-style debate that was broadcast on NPR. Saltzman and Elliott took on Richard Fisher, President of the Dallas Federal Reserve, and  Simon Johnson, Professor at MIT, and argued that breaking up large banks would eliminate key societal benefits and fail to make the financial system any safer.

Watch the debate