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Public Policy Brief Highlights | April 2008
Financial Markets Meltdown: What Can We Learn from Minsky?

According to Senior Scholar L. Randall Wray, the current crisis in financial markets can be traced back to securitization (the “originate and distribute” model), leverage, the demise of relationship-based banking, and a dizzying array of extremely complex instruments that—quite literally—only a handful understand.

Publication(s):
Public Policy Brief Highlights No. 94A, 2008


View all associated program(s) publications:
The State of the U.S. and World Economies
Monetary Policy and Financial Structure

Author(s):
L. Randall Wray

  

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