Cuba was situated only 90 miles from Florida in southern USA. Americans owned most of the businesses‚ banks‚ sugar and tobacco plantations‚ as well as a large naval base. The USA maintained good relations with the pro-American dictator Batista. Batista was overthrown in 1959. 95% of Cuba’s trade was with the USA so the Cuban economy was heavily dependent on the USA. The new leader‚ Fidel Castro wished to reduce USA influence. He nationalised industries and banks and introduced land reforms. This
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After the financial crisis in 2008‚ the regulation has been paid more attention to. The financial sector’s reputation was trashed by the crisis. A light touch has been replaced by close oversight‚ even using ‘stress tests’ to measure banks’ ability to withstand crises (The Economist‚ 2017). One scandal followed another unfolded: providing mortgages to people who could not afford them; mis-selling securities built upon such loans (RICHARD‚ D.‚ 2010); selling expensive and often useless payment-protection
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Leverage is borrowing money to amplify the outcome of a deal. The financial crisis includes sub-prime mortgages‚ collateralized debt obligations‚ frozen credit markets‚ and credit default swaps. The way that leverage works in a normal deal is that someone can buy merchandise for 20‚000 and sell it to someone else for 11‚000 and they gain 1‚000 in profit. However‚ using leverage if the same person with 10‚000 goes to borrow 990‚000 it will give him 1‚000‚000. He will then go buy 100 boxes with his
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Public Relations and Crisis Management Hung Fook Tong Table of Contents Executive Summary 2 Define and Explain the Crisis 3 Crisis Management Concepts and the Crisis 4 Crisis Management Strategies and Communication Strategies - Actual 5 Executive Summary This report critically defines‚ analyzes and provides recommendations on a recent crisis Hung Fook Tong (HFT) has encountered‚ product deficiency. Through crisis management concepts‚ communication strategies this report will show what
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The economic crisis began when the U.S. government subsidized mortgages for families and individuals who could not afford to buy homes. By doing so‚ the demand for housing skyrocketed‚ resulting in increased home values. Meanwhile‚ mortgage companies and banks celebrated their financial incentive to provide loans to anyone‚ regardless of credit history. The combination of falsely inflated home prices and “generous” bank loans burst the artificial bubble of prosperity Americans were enjoying. As home
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The Cuban Missile Crisis of October 1962 was a time of consistent danger‚ stress‚ and constant conflicts between the United States and the Soviet Union. This was a moment when the two states came closest to nuclear war. After the United States failed to dethrone the Castro regime using the Bay of Pigs invasion‚ the Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev made a secret agreement with the Cuban premier Fidel Castro. The plan was to place Soviet nuclear missiles in Cuba to prevent any attempted invasions.
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Abstract The objective of this research project has been written aim help I could understand obviously about global financial crisis and affects that its bring for countries on over the world as well as Vietnam. In this research project‚ I will mention to some factor such as: Reason to choose topic‚ purpose of research‚ subject and study scope‚ research methods‚ financial crisis and its signs‚ causes as well as affects‚ and proposal the solution to improve. However‚ to can analysis all factors above
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A MINSKY-KINDLEBERGER PERSPECTIVE ON THE FINANCIAL CRISIS J. Barkley Rosser‚ Jr. (contact) Professor of Economics‚ James Madison University Tel: 540-568-3212‚ email: rosserjb@jmu.edu Marina V. Rosser‚ Professor of Economics James Madison University Tel: 540-568-3094‚ email: rossermv@jmu.edu Mauro Gallegati‚ Professor of Economics Università Politecnica delle Marche‚ Ancona‚ Italy Email: Mauro.gallegati@gmail.com January‚ 2012 Abstract: Hyman Minsky and Charles Kindleberger discussed
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solutions to the destruction it has caused. Regardless of what residents thought about switching their water supply from the Detroit river to the Flint River before‚ it is something that affects everyone now. The tragedy of the Flint Michigan Water Crisis represents failure to recognize the severity of our environmental impact. Now the people of the city are left to live through it and eventually correct the problem. Flint was having severe problems far before it was brought into the spotlight with
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enacted legislation limiting the size of financial institutions‚ but instead we recovered and quickly forgot the past‚ only to have the same thing happen half a century later‚ worse than before‚ if we do not change our economic policies‚ this pattern of crisis and temporary recovery will
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