# A fireside chat featuring former Secretary of the US Treasury Timothy Geithner at the “2008 Financial Crisis: A Ten-Year Review" conference, co-hosted by Stern, is featured

1 School News December 17, 2018 ![CFA Institute blog logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/con_032856.jpg?itok=V-VlUDNY)>

Excerpt from the [CFA Institute blog](https://blogs.cfainstitute.org/investor/2018/12/17/timothy-geithner-the-financial-crisis-10-years-later/) -- "Finance is inherently vulnerable to failure, Geithner said, and the financial crisis was caused by a cascading series of failures: failures of supervision and regulation and the failure to adapt. The ensuing panic demonstrated that our system had outgrown its Great Depression-era safeguards."

[Read more](https://blogs.cfainstitute.org/investor/2018/12/17/timothy-geithner-the-financial-crisis-10-years-later/)