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Disdain for FUD—and for the type of
person who tends to experience it—is
what helped cause the crash, says
Boykin Curry, a managing director of
the investment firm Eagle Capital, who
had front-row seats to the 2008 meltdown.
Too much power was concentrated
in the hands of aggressive risktakers.
“For twenty years, the DNA of
nearly every financial institution
… morphed dangerously,” he told
Newsweek magazine at the height of the
crash. “Each time someone at the table
pressed for more leverage and more
risk, the next few years proved them
‘right.’ These people were emboldened,
they were promoted and they gained
control of ever more capital. Meanwhile,
anyone in power who hesitated,
who argued for caution, was proved
‘wrong.’ The cautious types were increasingly
intimidated, passed over for
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