Too Big to Save? [C-SPAN]
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Too Big to Save? [C-SPAN]
February 8, 2010 – 9:58 am | No Comment

Robert Pozen looks at the causes of the 2008 financial collapse and says that the financial system needs to be reformed so that we don’t see a repeat down the road. He argues for changing the incentive system on Wall Street and calls for strengthening the government regulation of financial markets. (1 hours, 9 minutes)

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TARP shortchanging taxpayers [The DC]
January 11, 2010 – 10:55 am | No Comment

If the Treasury bails out large banks in the future, it should demand the same terms as those received by sophisticated institutional investors. Some of the rescued banks will become profitable, while others will become insolvent. Taxpayers need to maximize their gains on the successful turnarounds to compensate for their losses on the bailouts that inevitably fail.