Certainly conservatively run community banks pose a much lower risk to our financial system at a 6% leverage ratio, compared to a large TBTF organization with still undefined ties with multiple counter-parties, and with proprietary trading operations.

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American commercial banks were subject to a leverage ratio in the run-up to the financial crisis: they still ran into trouble.

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