But financial excesses existed centuries before a brick had been laid on Wall Street.
We have to struggle against financial excesses ... those who speculate with sovereign debt, those who develop financial products which have done so much harm.
Its former heads appeared before the U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform hearings, which explored the financial excesses that led the companies to collapse.
Acknowledging no "silver bullet" exists to prevent the past financial excesses from recurring, Paulson called for steps to be taken to ensure enhanced transparency, disclosure and risk management.
It is too plentiful for small economies to spend, and has therefore added to the glut of global saving that is in part responsible for the financial excesses of recent years.
The stringent rules are focused on strengthening balance sheets and reducing perceived financial sector excesses such as banker bonuses.
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The Age of Deleveraging forecasts a similar decade, at least quite a few years, of slow growth and deflation as financial leverage and other excesses of past decades are worked off.
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Though he acknowledged that banks and other financial firms had engaged in excesses in the years leading up to the crisis, he didn't lay blame at their feet.
One approach has been increased governmental regulation, such as the Dodd-Frank Act of 2010, which attempts to reign in the excesses of the financial industry with new rules and restrictions.
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The media has made much of the pay excesses that preceded the financial crisis, but these are hardly new.
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It's going to take years for the financial sector to recover from its excesses, just as it took years for energy to recover from the 1980 collapse and for technology to recover from 2000.
There's more common ground between the Tea Party and the Occupy Wall Street movements than you might think - a kind of populist revulsion at what seems to be the irresponsible excesses of the American financial sector and at the unwillingness or inability of the lawmakers in Washington to do enough about it.
In addition, our long-run fiscal problems may require the Fed to create even greater excesses than they already want to, because financial realities have gotten quite near to the point after which governments almost always print their way out of trouble.
New York and the country were in the throes of recession, which in those days normally was induced by excesses in inventory accumulation and plant over expansion, not financial mufti puffti.
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The next Treasury secretary inherits a badly shaken financial system, a mandate to rein in Wall Street's excesses, and hundreds of billions of dollars' worth of risky new programs ginned up by the current president to stop the bleeding.
We can create (and actually have created and continue to create) a political and financial hybrid that takes the best of both capitalism and socialism, and mitigates the potential excesses and difficulties of both.
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