The crisis that banks made
Unlike many previous crises — Latin America, Asia, Russia — the woes of 2007 were caused by the financial markets’ own practices, with little help from outsiders. Outside the US, the pain has so far remained in the financial sector. Toby Fildes and Jon Hay analyse how so much went wrong in a remarkable year, what went right, and the risks facing the markets in 2008.
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