Speaking at the [SMU] Sim Kee Boon Institute for Financial Economics public lecture on 7 November, Nobel Prize-winning Economist Professor Paul Krugman commented that the current financial crisis has its roots both in the banking sector and in the massive level of household debt. However, he said that although the United States has in place some of the tools needed to avert another financial crisis, more has to be done.

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