# An op-ed by Prof. Roy Smith on Bank of America

1 Faculty News March 5, 2012 ![Financial News logo ](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/con_030513.jpg?itok=TpE2KEls)>

Excerpt from [Financial News](http://www.efinancialnews.com/story/2012-03-05/bold-action-needed-bank-of-america) -- "If Bank of America should stumble again, and the FSOC had done nothing to prevent it, the political, as well as the economic, fallout could be devastating."

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