Government help to bank fund pushes bounds of moral hazard
Story date: 2007-10-18 06:51:00
Added on: 2007-10-18 11:00:27
Reuters - ... Reuters) - In a financial crisis, government officials face a quandary: let bad ... runs the risk of fostering more of the same risky practices that led the credit ... paper, which has been hard hit by problems stemming from rising U.S. mortgage defaults
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