# Professor Richard Sylla discusses why there has been a rise in the frequency of international financial crises and weighs in on timing for another

1 Faculty News September 18, 2018 ![Vox logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/vox%20192%20x%20144.jpg?itok=ZSNFzKfo)>

Excerpt from [Vox](http://https://www.vox.com/2018/9/18/17868074/financial-crisis-dodd-frank-lehman-brothers-recession) -- "That’s another feature of financial history, i.e., taking tough measures in the wake of a crisis and then watering them down over time. What’s different this time is that the watering-down began almost immediately instead of waiting a bit. That makes me think that we will not again have to wait half a century or more before the next large-scale financial crisis arrives."

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