当然，银行监督 — — 以及更一般的金融监管 — — 现在为何具备了更高的政治重要性的原因显而易见：2008年金融危机表明银行倒闭可能给整体经济带来灾难性后果。
Of course, the reason why banking supervision – and financial regulation more generally – has higher political salience now is obvious: The financial crisis of 2008 showed that bank failures could have catastrophic consequences for the economy as a whole.