System Under Strain: Weak Oversight and the Widening Wealth Gap
This summer, Stanford professor and Corporations and Society Initiative faculty director Anat Admati has a clear message: the financial system is still on dangerous ground. Despite the lessons of 2008, she warns, regulators have failed to curb unrestrained risk-taking, while corporate and banking elites continue to prioritize profits over stability. Her concerns echo across recent reporting from CNN, Marketplace, and Bayes Business School, which together paint a troubling picture of wealth-driven excess, economic uncertainty, and a post-crisis regulatory framework that remains far too weak.
Carry on banking: Stanford professor laments post-crisis approach to bank regulation
06/24/2025 Bayes Business School, City St. George’s, University of London
Stanford professor Anat Admati visited London to give a whistlestop tour of our greatest fears about banking regulation - arguing that public dismay about the financial sector's seeming immunity has driven populism.
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What drives financial fraud? It can come down to one emotion
07/13/2025 John Towfighi, CNN Business
Greed has driven people’s actions throughout history, including in the world of finance, said Anat Admati, professor of finance and economics at Stanford Graduate School of Business.
“Greed is about wanting things to own, to consume,” Admati said. “It’s pervasive.”
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Big banks are about to give us a snapshot of where this economy stands
07/14/2025 Daniel Ackerman, Marketplace
…the Trump administration wants to loosen the so-called supplementary leverage ratio. That’s a rule put in after the 2008 financial crisis, which limits how much big banks can use debt to fund their investments.
“Oh, there are huge rewards for them,” said Anat Admati, a professor of finance at Stanford. “The risk is to the rest of us.”
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