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Predicting the Next Banking Crisis Is a Fool’s Game. Not Learning From the Last One: Equally Foolish

Jeff For Banks

The old borrow short, lend long strategy. By comparison, non-high-tech industries lost 689,000 jobs between 2001 and 2002 but recovered the lost jobs by 2004. Who would’ve thought lending $1 million to a San Francisco cab driver to buy a house at 100% loan to value would go bad? High-tech employment fell from 12.1

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