The head of one bank suggests that the golden times enjoyed by investment banks in 2003-06 were an “aberration”, fuelled by a global liquidity glut big enough to hide a multitude of risk-taking sins.

一家银行的老板认为，投资银行在2003到06年间所享受的黄金时光是”不正常的”–由过剩的流动性驱使而来，流动性大到足以掩盖诸多的风险过错。

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Fewer restrictions spurred competition, squeezed profit margins and led to more risk-taking by Banks.

较少的管制促进了竞争，压缩了边际利润并且由银行带来了更多的风险。

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Over the past 20 years it has been the repeated interventions of central banks to rescue bulls, not bears, that have contributed to the current mess by encouraging too much risk-taking.

在过去的20年里，央行为了挽救“牛”而非“熊”，反复进行干预，鼓励人们承担过多的风险，因而促成了当前的困境。

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Treasury Secretary Geithner says a jobs bill is vital, as is an overhaul of America's financial regulations to limit risk-taking by the nation's banks and major private financial institutions.

VOA: standard.2010.02.07

"We believe he will be confirmed. There is no doubt there is anger and frustration in this country about the direction of our economy, and about what has happened with excessive risk-taking by big banks, and the American people having to lend their hard-earned money to bail them out.

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Berlin's aim is to perfect the monetary union by ensuring countries adhere to rules designed to prevent future crises by addressing what are seen as the causes of the current one: government overspending and excessive risk-taking by banks.

WSJ: Euro-Zone Rigidity Said to Add Risk in Bloc

They care about the size of bailout necessitated by excessive risk-taking taken by banks, and about economic growth, but not about how bank profits are divided per se, since they don't get a cut in any case.

CNN: Dimon's $23 million payday isn't the problem

While this crisis was caused by banks taking too much risk, the danger now is that they will take too little.

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