In the immediate postwar era, financial crises in advanced countries were rare events, and before 1970 did not happen at all. Since then they have occurred more often, and 2008 was the most damaging of them all to date. If… — Alan M. Taylor Copy Share Image
It's just very hard to teach a class of students about what has happened in the Global Financial Crisis, how we ended up there and how we got to where we are today, without having some basic, non-trivial understanding of… — Alan M. Taylor Copy Share Image
In the immediate postwar era, financial crises in advanced countries were rare events, and before 1970 did not happen at all. Since then they… — Alan M. Taylor Copy Share Image
We have never in human history seen a run-up in credit of the kind we have just witnessed in advanced economies since 1970, and… — Alan M. Taylor Copy Share Image
The basic aggregate measure of gearing or leverage is telling us that today's advanced economies' operating systems are more heavily dependent on private sector… — Alan M. Taylor Copy Share Image
It's just very hard to teach a class of students about what has happened in the Global Financial Crisis, how we ended up there… — Alan M. Taylor Copy Share Image
A possibility is that we see more and more leverage, and credit-to-GDP ratios rise once more to even higher levels; eventually the banking systems… — Alan M. Taylor Copy Share Image
Macroeconomic stability will be more elusive and that will affect all of our lives: from the risks many will face in childhood, to the… — Alan M. Taylor Copy Share Image
We may end up with a world based more on equity than debt, or more on market debt instruments than bank intermediation; but how… — Alan M. Taylor Copy Share Image
