--- title: Five Best: We’re Still Not Ready for the Next Banking Crisis description: We’re still not ready for the next banking crisis, is America tearing itself apart and more. canonical: https://time.com/4901135/were-still-not-ready-for-the-next-banking-crisis/ author: TIME article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-08-15T16:00:16.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:58:34.853Z article:section: Ideas og:title: We’re Still Not Ready for the Next Banking Crisis og:description: And four more of today's best ideas og:url: https://time.com/4901135/were-still-not-ready-for-the-next-banking-crisis/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: We’re Still Not Ready for the Next Banking Crisis twitter:description: And four more of today's best ideas twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # We’re Still Not Ready for the Next Banking Crisis by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Aug 15, 2017 4:00 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Aug 15, 2017 4:00 PM UTC **1\.** [**We’re still not ready for the next banking crisis.**](https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-08-14/we-re-still-not-ready-for-the-next-crisis) By Mark Whitehouse at _Bloomberg View_ **2\.** [**Is America tearing itself apart?**](http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/is-america-headed-for-a-new-kind-of-civil-war) By Robin Wright at the _New Yorker_ **3\.** [**Researchers accidentally discovered a way to get kids to grow up to be voters.**](http://nymag.com/scienceofus/2017/08/researchers-accidentally-found-one-way-to-help-kids-grow-up-to-be-voters.html) By Lily Carollo in the _Science of Us_ **4\.** [**Could we bridge the manufacturing skills gap with augmented reality?**](https://www.brookings.edu/blog/techtank/2017/08/10/can-augmented-reality-bridge-the-manufacturing-skills-gap/) By Jack Karsten and Darrell M. West at the _Brookings Institution_ **5\.** [**This lab is trying to measure America’s mood and health through social media.**](https://www.outsideonline.com/2230891/inside-lab-thats-quantifying-happiness) By Rowan Jacobsen in _Outside_  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/) _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4901135/were-still-not-ready-for-the-next-banking-crisis/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4901135/were-still-not-ready-for-the-next-banking-crisis/"},"headline":"We’re Still Not Ready for the Next Banking Crisis","datePublished":"2017-08-15T16:00:16.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:58:34.853Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/4901135/were-still-not-ready-for-the-next-banking-crisis/","keywords":["Five Best Ideas","Social Media","Innovation","Civil War","Voting","finance","Manufacturing"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"The Aspen Institute","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/five-best-ideas/","name":"Five Best Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4901135/were-still-not-ready-for-the-next-banking-crisis/","name":"We’re Still Not Ready for the Next Banking Crisis"}}]}] ```