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Eliminating Wall Street's Safety Net: How A Systemic Risk Premium Can Solve "Too Big To Fail", Jason Rudderman

Jason Rudderman

Eliminating Wall Street’s Safety Net: How a Systemic Risk Premium Can Solve “Too Big to Fail” The financial crisis of 2007 – 2009 sent the United States and the global economy into its worst recession since the great depression. Large, interconnected financial and non-financial institutions were at the center of the financial crisis. The institutions highly leveraged positions during the crisis led the government to take extreme measures, including bailing out some of these “too big to fail,” but failing institutions. The crisis led the United States Congress to pass the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (Dodd-Frank …