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Morici: Big Banks Are ‘Too Big to Effectively Regulate’

“President Barack Obama needs to rein in big banks, lower healthcare costs, take on the enormous trade deficit and compromise on domestic energy if he wants to have a successful second term and not be stuck in the morass that marked the past four years, Peter Morici, a professor at the Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland, told Fox Business Network.

Regarding the fast-approaching fiscal cliff, Morici believes a compromise will be made, but “the question is do we have a bad deal,” he said in response to New York Times columnist Paul Krugman, who wrote that the country should go over the fiscal cliff.

“Let’s not make a deal,” Krugman wrote. Obama must stick to his guns and demand tax increases on the wealthy, which Republicans, who control the House, adamantly oppose, argued Krugman, a Nobel Prize winning economist. ”

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