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What lessons have we learned from the financial crisis?

Saker Nusseibeh

11 August 2017 • 3 min read

Saker Nusseibeh sets out five main lessons from the 2007 crash but questions whether we have learned from them

I have been thinking about the 2007/08 crises recently and trying to assess its main lessons from a general perspective, while keeping in mind the quote attributed to Mark Twain that, "History does...

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