Crunch struck, responding by pumping billions of pounds into the economy. Joining me on leaders with lacqua, former bank of england governor, economist and author mervyn king. Lord king, thank you so much for speaking to bloomberg tv. It is always a great pleasure. What lessons have we learned from the financial crisis . Lord king i hope we learned the lesson that this was a lot bigger than just a financial crisis. It represented a serious problem in the world economy. Not sure that everyone sees it that way, but i think that is the most important lesson. I think secondly we learned we need to worry not just about the amount of Equity Capital banks issue, we need to limit the leverage, but we also need to tackle the problem that banks are inherently unstable. And if people lose confidence in them, they take their money out, or they do not roll over their lending, and we need a mechanism for dealing with that. Francine did we see early signs of it, or were we late to the game . Lord kin
Thank you so much for speaking to bloomberg tv. It is always a great pleasure. What lessons have we learned . Mr. King i hope we learned the lesson that this was bigger than financial crisis. It represented a serious problem in the world economy. I think that is the most important lesson. Second, we learned we need to worry not just about the amount of Equity Capital banks issue, we need to limit the leverage, but we also need to tackle the problem that banks are inherently unstable. People take their money out, or they dont roll over there letting, and we need to do that. Francine did we see early signs of it . Mr. King i think we saw signs in the world economy, and we should have given more weight to the rise of leverage in the Banking System. At that point, the banks themselves were deeply reluctant to admit what was going on was not sustainable. Francine at what point in the lead up to the financial crisis did you think there was something seriously wrong . Mr. King i give a speech
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Lacqua, former bank of england governor, economist and author mervyn king. Lord king, thank you so much for speaking to bloomberg tv. It is always a great pleasure. What lessons have we learned . From the financial crisis . Mr. King i hope we learned the lesson that this was a lot bigger than just a financial crisis. It represented a serious problem in the world economy. Not sure that everyone sees it that way, but i think that is the most important lesson. I think secondly we learned we need to worry not just about the amounts of of Equity Capital banks issue, we need to limit the leverage, but we also need to tackle the problem that banks are inherently unstable. And if people lose confidence in them, they take their money out, or they do not roll over their lending, and we need a mechanism to do that. Francine did we see early signs of it, or were we late to the game . Mr. King i think we saw signs of it in the economy and we , should have given more weight to the rise of leverage i
Lord king it is difficult to exaggerate the severity and importance of these events. Not since the beginning of the First World War has our Banking System been so close to collapse. Francine mervyn king was at the epicenter of the biggest exercise in Crisis Management in modern financial history. He was in charge of the bank of england in 2007, pumping billions of pounds into the economy. Joining me on leaders with lacqua, former bank of england governor, economist and author mervyn king. Lord king, thank you so much for speaking to bloomberg tv. It is always a great pleasure. What lessons have we learned . From the financial crisis . Lord king i hope we learned the lesson that this was a lot bigger than just a financial crisis. It represented a serious problem in the world economy. Not sure that everyone sees it that way, but i think that is the most important lesson. I think secondly we learned we need to worry not just about the amounts of of Equity Capital banks issue, we need to l