Ten years after the financial crisis, the standard story still dominates: “deregulation” caused it. This is not even slightly true. It’s urgent that we get this right, and not let the Fed’s apologists (and the simply lazy) get away with this comic-book answer that encourages all the wrong kinds of policy responses.
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