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Turmoil in the Global Banking System: Causes, Remedies, Opportunities

This Week in Intelligent Investing

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The Politics of Regulators

I'm not going to defend regulators, rating agencies, crossing guards in general, because I think they don't often focus on the right things. But then you have to ask yourself, why is that? If you are a regulator, your incentives are such that you're often rewarded for looking backward and solving what has just happened rather than solving what problem could be just around the corner. So I am not especially critical of the regulators in this case; it would have behooved them to come in here with a sledgehammer and really cleaned this up before it got out of control. That moment kind of passed in 2020, right? Because had they come in here more aggressively in 2021 or

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