Governments have attempted to eliminate or mitigate financial crises by regulating the financial sector. One major goal of regulation is transparency: making .\r
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The financial crises generated many articles and books outside of the scholarly and financial press, including articles and books by author William Greider, .\r
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Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World is a 2009 nonfiction book about events leading up to and culminating in the Great Depression as told .\r
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In January 2008, then GAO Director David Walker presented a strategy for addressing what he called the federal budget burning platform and unsustainable .