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Such pay structures gave executives excessive incentives to seek short-term gains – say, by making lending and investment decisions that would improve short-term earnings – even when doing so would increase the risks of an implosion later on.

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I think it's excessive Internet use in general, excessive video gaming, excessive new access to pornography.

But it's also, of course, to do with the massive crisis that followed excessive leverage, excessive borrowing in the private sector.

If it takes three men to hold a man down, to put him on a flight, one the public is on, that's excessive.

If the man died, that right there is excessive.

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