“[I]t is a question of when, not if, a large-scale attack succeeds.” DTCC and Oliver Wyman, Large-scale Cyber-attacks on the Financial System, March 2018.
“The government cannot credibly commit to a no-bailout policy.” Kathryn Judge, “Guarantor of
More than a decade has passed since the worst of the 2007-2009 financial crisis. In that time, we have learned that some of the gravest consequences of the crisis were not the economic fallout, but the political backlash it triggered. …
Larry Summers, who was one of President Obama’s key economic advisors when the Dodd-Frank Act of 2010 was enacted, recently decried what he called “excessive populism” in portions of that legislation. This might seem surprising; Dodd-Frank’s technocracy-on-steroids approach (848 pages! …
Calming the panic in short-term funding markets was a significant part of the response to the 2008 financial crisis. While the TARP bailout programs received the most attention during the crisis, TARP never exceeded one-fifth of the government’s overall financial …
“[I]t is a question of when, not if, a large-scale attack succeeds.” DTCC and Oliver Wyman, Large-scale Cyber-attacks on the Financial System, March 2018.
“The government cannot credibly commit to a no-bailout policy.” Kathryn Judge, “Guarantor of