# Prof. Thomas Cooley weighs in on Richard X. Bove's new book

1 Faculty News December 19, 2013 ![](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/con_030601.jpg?itok=GeJte3i1)>

Excerpt from [Bloomberg Businessweek](http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-12-19/too-big-to-fail-banks-defended-by-analyst-richard-bove) -- "In backing the banks so fulsomely, though, Bove is staking out a lonely corner of the bookshelf. 'It seems to me like he’s fighting an uphill battle,' says [Thomas Cooley](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/thomas-cooley), the former dean of New York University’s Stern School of Business. 'Probably Jamie Dimon will give it to everyone on his Christmas list.'”

[Read more](http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-12-19/too-big-to-fail-banks-defended-by-analyst-richard-bove)