From Asian to Global Financial Crisis: An Asian Regulator's View of Unfettered Finance in the 1990s and 2000sThis is a unique insider account of the new world of unfettered finance. The author, an Asian regulator, examines how old mindsets, market fundamentalism, loose monetary policy, carry trade, lax supervision, greed, cronyism, and financial engineering caused both the Asian crisis of the late 1990s and the global crisis of 20082009. The book shows how the Japanese zero interest rate policy to fight deflation helped create the carry trade that generated