Chris Patten on a Life in Global Politics
Chris Patten, the last Governor of Hong Kong, discusses his memoir "First Confession" with Mark Leonard, Director of the European Council on Foreign Relations, and François Bougon of Le Monde.
Fifteen years after the collapse of the US investment bank Lehman Brothers triggered a devastating global financial crisis, the banking system is in trouble again. Central bankers and financial regulators each seem to bear some of the blame for the recent tumult, but there is significant disagreement over how much – and what, if anything, can be done to avoid a deeper crisis.