Bruce Yandle

Connecting Dots to Financial Crisis

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By Chidem Kurdas

There are enough books about the events of 2008-2009 to fill a library. Nevertheless, there is no coherent framework that integrates the various factors in the dramatic boom-and-bust cycle that goes back to the late 1990s and may still be with us yet.  Bruce Yandle offers a welcome synthesis in the Independent Review, centered on trust-building devices and their dissolution. Continue reading →