Deals up: Wall Street is dealing again

Commentary: With cash, debt and confidence, M&A is about to boom

that is one of the answers, I suppose, to the question, what are companies and banks going to do with all this cash? what it is is that now TBTF is the thing to be! there is going to be a mad dash to merge one's way to economically irrational scale just to get on the 'preferred' list of the government - hey, if the government is going to be in the business of 'bailouts' then one would be remiss not to adapt accordingly, and to precisely that extent the customer interest will be compromised in the form of higher prices, lower quality, poorer service, all resulting from less competition