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Martin Wolf on why banks fail and what to do about it

Behind the Money

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Is There a Need for Higher Equity Capitalization?

On the eve of the financial crisis, we discovered that banks had almost no equity capital at all. Martin believes it's still not enough. You just need a bad economy or a big interest rate shock, and you're in terrible territory.

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