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{{a|risk|}}Also known as “the stable from which your horse has bolted”, which your [[risk]] and [[legal]] and management teams will accordingly obsess about, until the last guy who was there when the horse bolted has finally retired. Whereupon the [[paradigm]] will reset and said {{risk|risk}} will be demoted from a {{risk|known known}} to an {{risk|unknown known}} — if your organisation has a grip on history, or an {{risk|unknown unknown}}, if it doesn’t. | {{a|risk|}}Also known as “the stable from which your horse has bolted”, which your [[risk]] and [[legal]] and management teams will accordingly obsess about, until the last guy who was there when the horse bolted has finally retired. Whereupon the [[paradigm]] will reset and said {{risk|risk}} will be demoted from a {{risk|known known}} to an {{risk|unknown known}} — if your organisation has a grip on history, or an {{risk|unknown unknown}}, if it doesn’t. | ||
Great example: The [[Glass-Steagall Act]] of 1932, hastily enacted to address the, in hindsight, face-slappingly obvious opportunity for perfidy presented by allowing a [[financial institution]] to use its customer deposits to capitalise its investment banking — in the vernacular, “casino banking” — operations. The banks ploughed mom-and-pop savings into pump-and-dump boiler-room schemes which, during the pumping phase, was just fine, but in the dumping phase, when the | Great example: The [[Glass-Steagall Act]] of 1932, hastily enacted to address the, in hindsight, face-slappingly obvious opportunity for perfidy presented by allowing a [[financial institution]] to use its customer deposits to capitalise its investment banking — in the vernacular, “casino banking” — operations. The banks ploughed mom-and-pop savings into pump-and-dump boiler-room schemes which, during the pumping phase, was just fine, but in the dumping phase, when the Dow fell off a cliff in 1929, led to bank runs, folks (largely moms and pops, and not bankers, by the way) throwing themselves off buildings and so on. Never again in our lifetime will we allow that, said they great and good of 1932, and so it proved. | ||
Wikipedia puts it in uncharacteristically forthright (but basically fair) terms: | Wikipedia puts it in uncharacteristically forthright (but basically fair) terms: | ||
:''The oligarchy of major U.S. financial sector firms succeeded in establishing a dogma of deregulation in American political circles and in using its considerable political influence in Congress to overturn key provisions of Glass-Steagall and to dismantle other major provisions of statutes and regulations that govern financial firms and the risks they may take. In 1999 Congress passed the [[Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act|Gramm–Leach–Bliley Act]], also known as the [[Financial Services Modernization Act of 1999]], to repeal them.'' | :''The oligarchy of major U.S. financial sector firms succeeded in establishing a {{t|dogma}} of deregulation in American political circles and in using its considerable political influence in Congress to overturn key provisions of [[Glass-Steagall Act|Glass-Steagall]] and to dismantle other major provisions of statutes and regulations that govern financial firms and the risks they may take. In 1999 Congress passed the [[Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act|Gramm–Leach–Bliley Act]], also known as the [[Financial Services Modernization Act of 1999]], to repeal them.'' | ||
Fifty-seven years later, anyone who was there at the time was dead<ref>Except — irony alert! — [[Alan Greenspan]]. Though in fairness to the great [[Ayn Rand|Randian]] deregulator, even he was only six at the time.</ref>. And so the wheel turned full circlye Just eight years later everyone found out what [[Glass-Steagall]] was for. | Fifty-seven years later, anyone who was there at the time was dead<ref>Except — irony alert! — [[Alan Greenspan]]. Though in fairness to the great [[Ayn Rand|Randian]] deregulator, even he was only six at the time.</ref>. And so the wheel turned full circlye Just eight years later everyone found out what [[Glass-Steagall]] was for. | ||