Sorry, Our Banks Are Still Broken
Anat Admati Diagnoses Our Rickety Financial Institutions and How To Tame Them
In the wake of our most recent financial crisis, Stanford University economist Anat Admati, coauthor of The Bankers’ New Clothes: What’s Wrong with Banking and What to Do About It, listened carefully to the debates and arguments and discussions about what had gone wrong and what should be done. “Everybody seemed to have a story they liked to tell about what went on and what to do, and they had it all figured out,” she told a standing-room-only crowd at the Goethe-Institut Los Angeles. At the same time, there was …
