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The mortgage brokers probably spent all of their money. The mortgage-backed securities structurers maybe didn’t spend all of their money. But when you have an economy where contracts can be rewritten and you can go back and try to claw back money from people years after the fact, that’s going to be tremendously destabilizing and it’s going to really disincentivize investment in human capital. And it’s going to incentivize people to work in the gray economy. I think the answer is, for some of these jobs, jobs like in the investment business, going forth contractually, we should create compensation arrangements where there are clawbacks. But you have to do that by agreement and in advance. You can’t reopen contractual arrangements years after the fact. At least not without some strong indications of knowing fraud.

discussing where we can claw back money from. this is also kinda disingenuous cus it assumes that "investment in human capital" is a good thing a priori (without connecting the dots between the way this sort of investment is valorised and the financial crisis ... which he purportedly thinks was dumb ...)

—p.146 Populist Rage (125) missing author 5 years, 3 months ago