The Financial Crisis Inquiry Report¶
Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission. (2011). The Financial Crisis Inquiry Report: Final Report of the National Commission on the Causes of the Financial and Economic Crisis in the United States.
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Primes¶
- Normalization of Deviance
- In financial regulation and risk management, capital ratios drifting toward minimums, model-risk exceptions granted and renewed, and covenants relaxed in good periods exhibit it, and pre-crisis underwriting standards drifted by exactly this mechanism.
This sourceConcludes that dramatically and progressively declining mortgage underwriting standards during the good years - which regulators failed to halt - enlarged the housing bubble and bust; an instance of incident-free history eroding the working risk envelope.
- In financial regulation and risk management, capital ratios drifting toward minimums, model-risk exceptions granted and renewed, and covenants relaxed in good periods exhibit it, and pre-crisis underwriting standards drifted by exactly this mechanism.
- Regulatory Capture
- Regulators draft rules that exempt too-big-to-fail banks from strict capital requirements or allow proprietary trading that smaller competitors cannot match, a dynamic the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission (2011) documented in detail for the pre-2008 era.
This sourceDocuments revolving-door dynamics, campaign contributions, and rule-shaping by large banks in pre-2008 financial regulation.
- Regulators draft rules that exempt too-big-to-fail banks from strict capital requirements or allow proprietary trading that smaller competitors cannot match, a dynamic the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission (2011) documented in detail for the pre-2008 era.
- Trusted Intermediary Compromise
- Hardware. Counterfeit components entering a trusted procurement channel and reaching consumers who trusted the supplier rather than testing each lot. Information and finance. Rumour laundering, where a planted story is escalated through outlets of rising credibility until consumers inherit the falsification from a trusted source; and the rating channel, where investors relied on agency ratings rather than re-examining underlying loans.
This sourceFinds investors relied on credit-rating agencies — 'often blindly' — rather than re-examining the underlying loans; ratings were 'key enablers' whose channel propagated to all holders.
- Hardware. Counterfeit components entering a trusted procurement channel and reaching consumers who trusted the supplier rather than testing each lot. Information and finance. Rumour laundering, where a planted story is escalated through outlets of rising credibility until consumers inherit the falsification from a trusted source; and the rating channel, where investors relied on agency ratings rather than re-examining underlying loans.
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