The failure to impose market discipline via the no-bailout clause was predictable: in a systemic crisis, the immediate concern to preserve the stability of markets almost always trumps the desire to prevent the moral hazard that arises when imprudent debtors are saved. But in September 2008, the United States government thought otherwise, and allowed Lehman Brothers to fail in order to impose market discipline.
Que no se pudiera imponer disciplina de mercado a través de la cláusula de no rescate era predecible: en una crisis sistémica, la preocupación inmediata por preservar la estabilidad de los mercados casi siempre supera al deseo de impedir el peligro moral que surge cuando se salva a deudores imprudentes.