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How Close Are We To Another Financial Collapse? Nancy Koehn, September 19, 2018, Audio, "This month marks the 10 year anniversary of our financial system buckling under the weight of big lending. The crash set off the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, with millions of Americans losing their homes, jobs and savings. While the debate is still going on as to whether policymakers did enough to prevent this meltdown from being even…
As Congress Rolls Back Banking Regulations, One Historian Urges Caution. Nancy Koehn, May 29, 2018, Audio, "This month, Congress approved changes to the 2010 Dodd-Frank Act, a series of banking reforms passed in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis to stabilize the nation's economy. The rollback is limited, applying only to midsize and regional banks. Restrictions on the country's largest banks are still in place. However, Harvard Business…