"The cardinal maxim [to avoid 'moral hazard' and the requirement of stopping excessive risk taking in an economy by credit institutions and the subsequent need for government to rescue them with public money when their speculation goes wrong] is, that any aid to a present bad Bank is the surest mode of preventing the establishment of a future good Bank [and sensible risk taking]. "
Walter Bagehot
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