What caused the banking crisis?. The banking crisis was caused by bankers' greed and government complicity / Simon Johnson -- Misguided government policies, not bankers' greed, caused the banking crisis / Lawrence H. White -- The banking crisis was caused by a lack of regulation / Nouriel Roubini -- Deregulation did not cause the banking crisis / James L. Gattuso -- Excessive compensation packages contributed to the banking crisis / Paul Volcker -- Not all banks have excessive executive compensation packages / Jamie Dimon -- The banking crisis was caused by excessive debt / Andy Singh -- Is the U.S. banking system in jeopardy?. The economy is turning around / Christina Romer, interviewed by David Gregory -- The economy will not turn around until structural flaws are fixed / Sandy B Lewis and William D Cohan -- Bailouts are necessary to restore the banking system / Barack Obama -- Bailouts are bad for the economy / Daniel Mitchell -- Some banks are too big to let fail / Ben S. Bernanke -- Big banks should be allowed to fail / Thomas M Heonig -- How should the U.S. banking system be fixed?. Banks should be nationalized / Joseph E. Stiglitz -- Nationalizing banks will not work / William M. Isaac -- More regulation of banking is needed / Christopher J Dodd -- Reinventing regulation / Steven Pearlstein -- If banks are too big to fail, take an ax to them / David Pauly -- Big banks should not be broken up / Tim Fernholz -- Small banks can help solve the banking crisis / Phillip Longman and Ellen Seidman -- Executive compensation of bankers needs to be fixed / Gene Sperling -- Regulating executive compensation will not solve the banking problem / Floyd Norris -- What role did foreign investment play in the U.S. banking crisis?. Foreign tax havens contributed to the banking crisis / Rachel Keeler -- Foreign tax havens did not contribute to the banking crisis / Richard W. Rahn -- China contributed to the banking crisis / Eswar Prasad -- China did not cause the banking crisis / Huang Xin.

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