02 Feb Should banks be required to clearly state any off balance sheet activities? Should banks be required to hold reserves against their off balance sheet activities? Sh
- Should banks be required to clearly state any off balance sheet activities? Should banks be required to hold reserves against their off balance sheet activities?
- Should governments purchase the devalued paper so that financial institutions can clean up their balance sheets and prevent a collapse of the financial system?
- Should governments seize the insolvent banks and operate them until private buyers can step in?
- Should governments regulate investment banks and private equity funds and hedge funds? If so, would this regulation have to be international in scope?
- Should governments regulate the compensation schemes of the senior managers and traders in financial institutions?
- In a crisis, should financial institutions be required to mark to market?
- Should credit rating agencies be regulated?
- Should governments regulate mortgage terms and security conditions?
- Has globalization created the ineviatability of global contagion in financial crises?
- Did the financial crisis make a recession inevitable?
