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Blog: Time for lenders to move on climate change risks

Blog: Time for lenders to move on climate change risks

Regulators, it is generally agreed, were asleep at the wheel in 2005-06, when the subprime-mortgage bubble was about to pop.  Lawmakers certainly wondered if officials should, perhaps, have been doing more than just watching as subprime grew into a financial crisis.  I’ll say.  The regulatory system neglected  to spot an approaching financial hurricane. As Robert ...

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