Simon Johnson – time to break bank power

By Prieur du Plessis, on April 18th, 2010 posted in: Economy, Investment

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Former IMF chief economist Simon Johnson says big banks have returned to “unacceptable” pre-Lehman collapse risk levels. MIT entrepreneurship professor Johnson was interviewed by FT’s Chris Giles at the Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET) conference, sponsored by George Soros, at King’s College, Cambridge.

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Source: Chris Giles, Financial Times, April 16, 2010.

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