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inhibited a great deal of necessary adjustment.
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That said, while I think the probability is low,
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one can't rule out the kind of situation that developed in Japan.
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I think we do--I think these issues of levels of capital
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in troubled financial institution are very important issues.
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One way of responding to an externality is with a subsidy.
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The idea of subsidizing institutions to raise capital
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seems quite untenable in the context of
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the institution's shareholders holding onto their shares.
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So in a way, we operate a system
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where the government can't infuse capital into an institution
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until the situation is very far gone,