Free exchange | Adair Turner on debt
Leverage Leviathan
THE former chairman of Britain's Financial Services Authority and author of the forthcoming book "Between Debt and the Devil" explains why private debt, not banks, deepened the financial crisis and continues to cause trouble today
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