The short answer is that no bank can be too big, so long as there is enough free competition to keep it on its toes.
The 2013 Midas List: Hot Prospects consists of investors who are keeping the industry on its toes and are poised to break into future Midas editions.
In the fiercely-competitive online brokerage industry, Charles Schwab has been on its toes trying to make sure it provides its customers with a one-stop solution for all their financial needs.
Thain, a former banker at Goldman Sachs Group (nyse: GS - news - people ) (which incidentally advised the two parties in the transaction), has been studying ways to boost electronic trading on the exchange without stepping on the toes of its floor traders.
America uses its energy growth to keep traditional producers on their toes and emerging markets firmly in their hydrocarbon place.
The U.S. men's national soccer team is going to stub all 10 of its toes in qualifying and miss out on a World Cup.
Countrywide, the second-biggest mortgage bank, is even treading on WaMu's toes: as part of its plan to triple its sales force by 2008, it plans to open perhaps a dozen new offices in Washington state.
It also had toes suited to walking along the ground and fewer feathers on its tail and lower legs, which would have made it easier to run.
The EPA also argues that, by regulating carbon dioxide, it would effectively be regulating fuel economy, and therefore stepping on the toes of the Department of Transportation, which already does that through its Corporate Average Fuel Economy, or CAFE regulations.
Lee Kuan Yew, Singapore's founding father and still its "minister mentor" has maintained that ambitious migrants help to keep citizens on their toes.
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