# Professor Roy Smith discusses Bernie Sanders' proposal to break up big banks

1 Faculty News February 9, 2016 ![Yahoo Finance logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/yahoofinance.jpg?itok=iQnyXkp_)>

Excerpt from [Yahoo Finance](http://finance.yahoo.com/news/the-big-banks-will-break-themselves-up-before-bernie-sanders-ever-gets-to-it-190710540.html#) -- "'Bernie doesn’t have to worry, because it’s going to happen by itself,' says [Roy Smith](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/roy-smith), a former Goldman Sachs (GS) partner who’s now a professor at New York University’s Stern School of Business. 'In many ways, their long-term viability is in doubt, which will most likely cause them to break themselves up.'"

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