Mr. NADGEE CORBETT: Is your jacket too big for you?

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Craig Pirrong makes the point that you can in fact just be too big for the markets you are operating in.

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They thought you were too big for your boots and ought to be taken down a peg or two.

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If you choose to do nothing, if you assume your company is too big for such a thing to happen to your online presence, then go ahead, do nothing.

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This may be because men have another option: for suit-wearers the best trick is to buy not the right new size but a size too big, for then the suit looks loose and people may be fooled into thinking you are getting slimmer, not fatter.

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But if investors and creditors regard the proposals as credible, if banks are no longer considered too big to fail, the costs for banks of raising money would rise: as you will have deduced, the risks of investing in and lending to banks increases in proportion to the perceived reduction in the implicit insurance against failure they receive from the state.

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Big gifts may save federal tax, too, if you have a chance of beating the reaper for 36 months.

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How can you make sure you don't fall into the trap exposed by "branded" executives who got too big for their own britches?

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