Was it not really very easy? All that one regulator had to do was read the balance sheets of the top half-dozen banks in Britain, and it could have seen that they were grossly over-geared.
The Economy
Proceeding contribution from
John Redwood
(Conservative)
in the House of Commons on Tuesday, 31 March 2009.
It occurred during Debate on The Economy.
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