Pursuing investments, which give you short-term allusion of returns but long-term liability to a huge crash like we just had, is the exact opposite of where we want to go.

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As plenty of highly leveraged borrowers learned in the crisis, hefty short-term funding can change from a profit engine to a huge liability overnight.

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