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Ho hum or bizarre?

…their lending and trading. The theory is that banks that rely less on borrowing are more stablebecause they are getting more of their financing from shareholder funds, which do not…

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…clear that the consensus is an ideology not a theory The irony is that during the Industrial Revolution, today’s rich countries — Britain, France and the United States — pursued…