# Professor Lawrence White responds to US bank CEOs requesting that Congress loosen bank capital requirements

1 Faculty News April 11, 2019 ![Marketplace Logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/marketplace_logo.jpg?itok=IIav3Udj)>

Excerpt from [Marketplace](https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-morning-report/04112019-us-edition) -- “That’s simply the wrong way to be thinking about capital… They \[the banks\] had way too little skin in the game and that is what really brought us to the brink of disaster."

[Listen here](https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-morning-report/04112019-us-edition)