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The Shorts Can't Break the Big Banks

By Jim Cramer

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 Every day they play break the bank. They play it because Tim Geithner gave them ammo. But I think they have a lot of assumptions wrong. What they are banking on is the "stress test," meaning that if they can break the stocks, they can break the banks, and that means that the banks that go down will not pass the stress test. If you don't pass the stress test, I think you get shut down, and your assets will be given to the "good" banks. Here's the issue that the shorts don't realize: While many of the banks that are going down should go down, because they will not meet the stress test, there are others that will meet it simply because the government is not about to seize them. We are not going to nationalize Bank of America(BAC) or Citigroup(C). We are not going to nationalize...

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