"It's putting a false sense on the market right now that everybody has this big flashing yellow light flashing, caution,caution,caution, so people are buying stuff you know in high volume than they usually buy.

VOA: standard.2010.05.08

The issue that first came to light around LIBOR fixing was whether or not banks had given false information to create a false impression of their viability.

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While we should try to improve mortgage standards and deal with the specific problems that the crisis has brought to light, the wholesale regulation of the financial system, based on the false premise that the core of the system is flawed, would give us the worst of both worlds: no growth and no stability.

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