Russ Roberts: Learning from the Financial Crisis

Never let a good crisis go to waste, the saying goes. The only thing worse than suffering through a financial crisis is suffering through one and not learning anything from it.

What have we learned from the last five years? I recently sat down with Hoover Institute economist Russ Roberts, who took a stab at the question. Have a look:

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