Destabilized by too much short-term debt and too much exposure to risky, overvalued, low-quality mortgage-backed securities, they tripped and fell over it. So regulators have focused on command-and-control orders to financial firms to increase their equity, and to reduce the riskiness of their investments.
从这个角度看，毫不奇怪债务如何课税在金融改革方案中只扮演了较小的角色。人们指出，金融机构之所以在2008年掉下了悬崖，是因为它们离悬崖挨得太近。它们短期债务过多、价值高估的高风险低质量按揭支持证券敞口过大，因此遭遇了动荡，最终掉下了悬崖。于是监管者便将注意力放在了勒令并控制金融企业提高股本、降低投资风险上。