From Financial Crisis to Debt Crisis?
How can policymakers be so certain that financial catastrophe won’t soon recur when they seemed to have no idea that a crisis would erupt in the first place? The answer is not very reassuring, because there is still a risk that the financial crisis is simply hibernating as it slowly morphs into a government debt crisis.
CAMBRIDGE – Everyone from the Queen of England to laid-off Detroit autoworkers wants to know why more experts did not see the financial crisis coming. It is an awkward question. How can policymakers be so certain that financial catastrophe won’t soon recur when they seemed to have no idea that such a crisis would happen in the first place?
CAMBRIDGE – Everyone from the Queen of England to laid-off Detroit autoworkers wants to know why more experts did not see the financial crisis coming. It is an awkward question. How can policymakers be so certain that financial catastrophe won’t soon recur when they seemed to have no idea that such a crisis would happen in the first place?