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He has, however, been fond of giving Gatewood-like speeches about how he and his colleagues know what they’re doing, and don’t need the government looking over their shoulders.
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So there’s a large heap of poetic justice — and a major policy lesson — in JPMorgan’s shock announcement that it somehow managed to lose $2 billion in a failed bit of financial wheeling-dealing.
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In the 1930s, after the mother of all banking panics, we arrived at a workable solution, involving both guarantees and oversight.
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It probably won’t last; I expect Wall Street to be back to its usual arrogance within weeks if not days.
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As far as we can tell, it used the market for derivatives — complex financial instruments — to make a huge bet on the safety of corporate debt, something like the bets that the insurer A.I.G. made on housing debt a few years ago.
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This system gave us half a century of relative financial stability. Eventually, however, the lessons of history were forgotten.
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No loopholes, no exemptions, no exceptions, no compromise, no ambiguous language. Until Congress reinstates it, moral hazard governs and the losers will be the Americans taxpayers. History will keep repeating itself unless politics and money are taken out of the equation.
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