Krugman: Out of the Shadows
Tue, 06/23/2009 - 13:25 — Dave Culver
President Obama’s plan for financial reform basically punts on the question of how to keep what went wrong from happening again.
Paul Krugman, The New York Times
Submitted by Evergreene Digest Contributing Editor Thomas Sklarski
Would the Obama administration’s plan for financial reform do what has to be done? Yes and no.
Yes, the plan would plug some big holes in regulation. But as described, it wouldn’t end the skewed incentives that made the current crisis inevitable.
Let’s start with the good news.
Our current system of financial regulation dates back to a time when everything that functioned as a bank looked like a bank. As long as you regulated big marble buildings with rows of tellers, you pretty much had things nailed down.
