You raise an excellent point, which is that everyone might have very good intentions of trying to manage through this crisis, but software systems, documents, legal requirements, uncertainty would be such that you could really paralyze the market.
Jack Reed: “You raise an excellent point, which is that everyone might have very good intentions of trying to manage through this…”
On the recordOctober 9, 2013
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Highlighting the challenges in managing a financial crisis.
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