Ben Bernanke actually said...

We want to have market discipline. We want to lenders to, large firms to believe that they can fail and therefore to take due care to make sure that the firms they are lending to are not taking excessive risks.

Context

Bernanke advocates for market discipline to prevent excessive risk-taking.

09/29/2010

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