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My recent study with Jacopo Carmassi, Time to Set Banking Regulation Right, shows that by permitting excessive leverage and risk-taking by large international banks – in some cases allowing banks to accumulate total liabilities up to 40, or even 50, times their equity capital – the Basel banking rules not only enabled, but, ironically, intensified the crisis.

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And together we got through the eye of the financial storm in Iceland without taking any direct losses to our equity or to the funds of our clients.

A couple of years ago, I was in New York, and I was pitching a deal, and I was in one of those fancy New York private equity offices you can picture.

We built this institution based on social justice, gender equity, this idea of empowering women.

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