Härom skrev Nicholas Brady, former US Treasury secretary, i Financial Times, August 26, 2012 Han har givit namn åt Brady Bonds, dollar-denominated bonds, issued mostly by Latin American countries in the late 1980s, a novel debt-reduction agreement for developing countries. LDC Debt Crisis, Argentina, Brazil, Mexico etc, remember? Jag skrev en bok om det, Den Stora bankkraschen, Timbro, 1983. Det vore synd, skrev jag, om västvärlden skulle drabbas av en djup ekonomisk kris just när Sovjetväldet håller på att vittra sönder ekonomiskt, politiskt och moraliskt. Brady: The days when a large multinational bank could borrow money from depositors – backed by a government insurance guarantee – and then lend it out to customers at a reasonable spread are gone, at least as their main source of revenues. With net margins squeezed, banks have had to reach for profits in increasingly esoteric areas, such as derivatives trading, which rely on compli...