Even back in the 1990’s, regulators would privately complain of the difficulty of retaining any staff capable of understanding the rapidly evolving derivatives market. Research assistants with one year of experience working on derivatives issues would get bid away by the private sector at salaries five times what the government could pay.
在20世纪90年代，监管者已在私底下抱怨很难找到能够理解快速演变的衍生品市场的工作人员了。拥有一年衍生品研究经验的研究助理会被私人部门以五倍于政府可以开出的工资挖走。