Fines Are Tax on Banks’ Extra Profits, Krawcheck
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Sallie Krawcheck, a former executive at Bank of America Corp. and Citigroup Inc., said government fines and charges levied on the largest U.S. banks are a tax on excess profits the lenders made.
“There is a cost of over-earning in which some of that money gets paid back to the government in fines,” Krawcheck said today at The Year Ahead: 2014, a two-day conference sponsored by Bloomberg LP in Chicago.