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Causes of the Recent Financial and Economic Crisis

By Ben Bernanke
Chairman Angelides, Vice Chairman Thomas, and other members of the Commission, your charge to examine the causes of the recent financial and economic crisis is indeed important. Only by understanding the factors that led to and amplified the crisis can we hope to guard against a repetition. Appropriately, the problem of too-big-to-fail, and the policies that the government uses to address that... (Read Full Article)
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