Bankers may be greedy, self-serving egomaniacs, but at least they are consistently greedy, self-serving and egotistical. That is more than can be said for the muddled response of governments and regulators to the financial crisis. They should not be blamed for getting policy wrong – most involved had never experienced anything like the meltdown before and, besides, the counterfactuals to decisions taken are unknowable. But leaders should at least be consistent.
銀行家可能是貪婪、自私的自大狂，但至少他們的貪婪、自私和自我是始終如一的。而政府和監管機構對金融危機的混亂反應就說不準了。我們不應為政策失誤而責怪他們——絕大多數涉身其中的人以前從未經歷過類似的崩盤，此外，他們也不知道所作決策會出現什么有違事實的情況。但是，領導人至少應該保持一致。
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