The 2008 financial meltdown was avoidable and largely caused by unnecessary risk-taking, corporate mismanagement and inept regulation, according to the US government's official report. The financial crisis inquiry commission's official report is due tomorrow but according to leaks in the New York Times it will conclude: "The greatest tragedy would be to accept the refrain that no one could have seen this coming and thus nothing could have been done. If we accept this notion, it will happen again." Regulators "lacked the political will" to oversee and hold accountable the institutions they were supposed to oversee, the report says. Politicians let the regulations slide. Finance chiefs were guilty of questionable practices and incompetence.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2011/jan/26/financial-crisis-us-commission
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