claim: "fifteen years ago, the assets of the six largest banks in this country totaled 17 percent of gdp ... the assets of the six largest banks in the united states today total 63 percent of gdp."
author: sherrod brown
evidence_1: mar 2, 2010 ... fifteen years ago, the combined assets of our six biggest banks totaled 17  percent of our gdp. ... three u.s. banks have over 40 percent of the global  market for stock underwriting. ... (rbc, cibc, td, bmo, scotiabank and national  bank). and that is also the case in other countries as well like switzerland, ...
evidence_2: americans spend more than $160 billion and 6 billion hours per year ... largest  six, that have assets that are the equivalent of 60 percent of the gdp ... "fifteen  years ago, the assets of the six largest banks in this country totaled 17 percent of  gdp ... the assets of the six largest banks in the united states today total 63  percent ...
evidence_3: kwak, a researcher at yale law school, estimate in the past 15 years the six  largest u.s. banks have grown in total assets from 17 to 63 percent of our overall  ... the bill would also cap nondeposit liabilities at 2 percent of u.s. gdp – or  about .... as moody's states, “the current banking laws give bank regulators the  power to ...
evidence_4: jan 1, 2003 ... losses but also for countries where official estimates understate the ... crises, later  events may just be a continuation of earlier events. ... percent of banking system  assets, six private banks ... it shutdown 1 (of 15) domestic banks and .... (0.6  percent of gdp), the largest state ... to about 17 percent of gnp.
evidence_5: the u.s. economy is still reeling from the financial crisis that exploded in the fall  of ... paradoxically, banks which were then too big to fail are even larger today. ...  deregulation, we had gone fifty years without a financial crisis. ...... six largest  banks in this country totaled 17% of gdp, whereas the assets of the six largest  banks.