Sophisticated finance does bring benefits
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So financial sophistication is a boon. But it is also dangerous. Emerging markets have endured a series of crises since the Latin American default of 1982. Advanced economies from Japan to Sweden have suffered expensive banking busts. The current crisis is a sort of super-sized, IMAX version of a depressingly familiar horror film.
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