Christine Lagarde chose to make it her first campaign as Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund. And conventional analyses of the financial crisis focus on the weak capital base of many banks, which left them with insufficient reserves to absorb the losses they incurred when asset prices fell sharply in 2007-2008.
巴黎——如今，几乎所有人都同意银行需要更多的资本。克里斯汀·拉加德选择将这一点作为IMF总裁新官上任的第一把火。传统金融危机分析将也注意力放在众多银行孱弱的资本金上，资本金过少让它们在2007—2008年资产价格暴跌时缺乏足够的储备来吸收所发生的损失。