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Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis President Neel Kashkari said his peers have offered mixed reactions to his concerns that some banks remain too big to fail. 

On Monday, Kashkari starts hosting a series of discussions about  mega-banks. He says many were too big to fail before the financial crisis but have grown even larger since the Great Recession. Kaskakri has suggested regulators  consider breaking up the  largest banks and taking other steps that go further than regulators have planned. 

"I've talked to a wide range of folks across the Federal Reserve Systems... Some people agree with what we're doing. Some people disagree.  But that's the reason we have a distributed Federal Reserve System, so we can have a diversity of opinions and bring all the ideas forward."

Kashkari also said he wants to raise awareness of the issue but won't lobby Congress for action.

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Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis President Neel Kashkari said his peers have offered mixed reactions to his concerns that some banks remain too big to fail.

The Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis will hold the first in a series of events Monday centered around reducing our economic reliance on big banks. President Neel Kashkari, who made headlines earlier this year with the suggestion that we should still be considering breaking up the nation's biggest banks, joined MPR News host Tom Weber to talk about this effort. 4/1/16

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