The financial crisis of 2007-2009 is an economic fiasco of global magnitude. It affects everyone. To understand how it happened one needs to go back a few steps. Years ago‚ after the dot-com bust and 9/11‚ borrowing money was cheap. Federal Reserve Bank chairman Allen Greenspan lowered interest rates to 1% to keep the economy strong. Treasury Bills were considered the safest investment‚ but due to low return‚ investors stayed away. Banks however were able to borrow enormous amounts of money on credit
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Environmental Crisis "We Have An Environmental Crisis Because We Have A People Crisis - A Crisis of Population Growth‚ of Wasteful Consumption of Resources‚ and A Crisis of Apathy and Inaction." An environmental crisis is an emergency concerned with the place in which every human lives - the environment. A people crisis is an emergency with the community that inhabits the world environment. A crisis of population growth is a turning point where the environment can no longer sustain the amounts
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SPD4287 Public Relations and Crisis Management Semester One‚ 2012/13 Group Project [pic] [pic] TABLE OF CONTENTS Item Content Page Executive Summary 1 Part A – Crisis Analysis 1. Crisis 2 – 3 2. Analysis 4 – 5 3. Response 6 – 8 4. Comment 9 5. Recommendation 10 Part B – Public Relations Plan 1. 5-step PR Management Process 11 – 14 2. Image Restoration 15 3. Reputation Rebuild 16 – 17 Executive Summary
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Crisis Communication Edit 0 0 16… Definition A crisis can occur in a myriad of contexts‚ including organizational‚ family‚ national‚ or interpersonal. The communication before‚ during and after a crisis is a transactional activity that helps individuals or organizations to prepare for or cope with the crisis event (Reynolds & Seeger‚ 2005). Crisis communication is studied primarily in the context of organizations (e.g.‚ Benoit 1995‚ Fearn-Banks‚ 2009)‚ although it is critical in coping with
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Crisis of 2008 What happened? Is considered by many economists to have been the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression of the 1930s. It threatened the total collapse of large financial institutions‚ which was prevented by the bailout of banks by national governments‚ but stock markets still dropped worldwide. In many areas‚ the housing market also suffered‚ resulting in evictions‚ foreclosures and prolonged unemployment. The crisis played a significant role in the failure of key businesses
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All automobiles need energy to run; but even otherwise all other means of transport need energy. But even though we use it every moment of our life and learn about it at school it often remains a riddle for many all through the life. An energy crisis is any great bottleneck (or price rise) in the supply of energy resources to an economy. In popular literature though‚ it often refers to one of the energy sources used at a certain time and place‚ particularly those that supply national electricity
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Crisis Communication Business isn’t always about staying on top and trying to beat out the competition or make a name for the company. Sometimes‚ the issue can be simply staying afloat when harder times come. Businesses occasionally go through situations that could threaten or harm people or property‚ interrupt business‚ damage reputation or negatively impact share value. These situations make up the definition of a crisis. Every organization is vulnerable to crisis‚ whether that organization is
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Crisis management: framework incorporating quality issues Introduction The 2007-09 financial crisis was the most serious such event since the Great Depression. The crisis manifested itself in credit losses‚ write-downs‚ liquidity shocks‚ deflated property values‚ and a contraction of the real economy. The sharp contraction in U.S. gross domestic product in 2009 traced to the adverse effects of the crisis on household consumption and business Investments. In the housing sector‚ banks took advantage
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Monetary Policy and the Financial Crisis of 2007-2008 Stephen G. Cecchetti* Revised 3 April 2008 *This essay was written while the author was the Barbara and Richard M. Rosenberg Professor of Global Finance‚ Brandeis International Business School; and a Research Associate‚ National Bureau of Economic Research. Note that as this draft was written‚ events were continuing to unfold. Hopefully‚ what I have written in February and March 2008 remains accurate. Among the vast number of people I spoke
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Rationality Breeds Legitimacy In Jurgen Habermas’‚ Legitimation Crisis‚ Western society is examined through a sociological lens to determine whether society is just. In his work‚ Habermas argues that advanced capitalism in Western societies leads to a legitimation crisis. Advanced capitalism displaces crisis tendencies‚ by means of state action‚ from the economic sphere into the socio-cultural sphere. Therefore‚ the legitimacy provided by the cultural sphere is threatened‚ resulting in a loss
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