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Ricks's book examined the 2008 financial crisis and argued that the money system is fundamentally broken, a view that proved relevant to the Silicon Valley Bank collapse.
He wrote the book The Money Problem to talk about the 2008 financial crisis.
— Episode: A Radical Way of Thinking About Money
Episode: A Radical Way of Thinking About Money
Ricks's book examined the 2008 financial crisis and argued that the money system is fundamentally broken, a view that proved relevant to the Silicon Valley Bank collapse.
He wrote the book The Money Problem to talk about the 2008 financial crisis.
So this is where your book makes a pretty profound move in its theory of financial regulation.
I make the argument in the book that really America's system of money and banking is broken.