id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-355782-q78ojig8 Berger, Allen N. Conditions that generally bring about bank bailouts, bail-ins, and other resolution methods 2020-06-26 .txt text/plain 4603 196 49 The Federal Reserve and its leaders receive blame for (1) keeping interest rates too low for too long in the pre-crisis period, encouraging risky lending; (2) not recognizing the dangers of the build-up of correlated risks in real estate lending; (3) not devoting sufficient resources to their financial stability mission to identify future stability and systemic risk threats; (4) pushing for Basel II capital standards, which lowered requirements for large, systemically important banking organizations and encouraged risky investments by European banks by putting low capital weights on AAArated tranches of MBS backed by subprime mortgages and sovereign debt of risky national governments; (5) not regulating the new complex and opaque instruments of finance, which were built on faulty models that underweighted the probability of housing price declines; and (6) not applying safety and soundness and consumer protection regulations consistently across intermediaries which gave rise to regulatory arbitrage; and (7) not pursuing accusations of consumer predatory lending. ./cache/cord-355782-q78ojig8.txt ./txt/cord-355782-q78ojig8.txt