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Financing Failure: A Century of Bailouts

with Vern McKinley

So we were told with the passage of the Dodd-Frank Act that too big to fail was now behind us. Except it isn’t. In fact, the conditions supporting bank bailouts have only gotten worse with the nation’s largest banks actually increasing in size and scope since 2008. TBTF, however, goes back farther than you might think. This podcast with Vern McKinley on his book, Financing Failure, discusses the regulatory history of bank bailouts rather than winding down insolvent institutions. Contrary to the Hank Paulson and Ben Bernanke narrative of the 2008 crisis, although the scope of the problem was new, the subject matter of the problems faced by regulators was anything but unique. McKinley provides this account in interesting detail and considers our future under Dodd-Frank.