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    financing and longer-term returns from investments) and extent lending; and at the same time help bank ‘hide’ their leverage assets as it was allowed to not being reported in the balance sheet (Ehrlich‚ 2008). It is important to notice that SIV assets was initially created for high-quality assets that are highly liquid and have low credit risk. With overwhelming expansion of the SIVs that led to increasing demand for SIV assets‚ subprime mortgages started to be employed widely regardless of their unpredictable

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    sManBal1e_CH19 02/09/10 5:36 PM Page 537 CHAPTER 19 Financial Crises There was a time when the credit markets had essentially frozen and when blue chip industrial companies were having trouble raising money. I knew then we were on the brink...We easily could have had unemployment of 25 percent.” —Henry M. Paulson (former Treasury Secretary)‚ commenting on the state of the U.S. economy in 2008 hroughout this book‚ we have seen that many kinds of shocks can decrease an economy’s output

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    Interest-Only Home Loan.” However‚ several years later in 2008‚ we would find ourselves along with the rest of the Nation in what was called‚ “The subprime mortgage meltdown‚” whereas‚ “Sex‚ Lies‚ and Subprime Mortgages” have gone wild/wrong. (Bloomberg) In this case study‚ Ms. Coleen Colombo‚ is a thriving senior underwriter (2003-205) at BNC Mortgage Inc.; a subprime subsidiary for Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc... As the story would go; an outstanding employee who exceeded expectations‚ reflective in her

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    Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (2011)‚ “Financial Market Trends”‚ Volume 2011 Issue 1‚ http://www.oecd.org/finance/financial-markets/48620405.pdfBarnes‚ Ryan (2009) “The Fuel That Fed The Subprime Meltdown”‚ Investopedia http://www.investopedia.com/articles/07/subprime-overview.aspRBA‚ Asset Securitization in Australia‚

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    financial meltdown for the sake of profit. Goldman Sachs‚ one of the largest and oldest investment banks in the world‚ was charged by the Federal Government with corporate fraud for knowingly managing a hedge fund filled with hazardous subprime mortgage deals. Subprime lending is a risky investment‚ as the borrower usually has poor credit and could prove unable to repay the loan. A first time home buyer could take out a loan beyond their financial capacity‚ with virtually no money down. Goldman’s radical

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    generate personal as well as economic wealth. Throughout the global financial crises CEO’s were not really hurt. “We didn’t see how lending money to our customers who couldn’t really afford to pay it back did any good”. Freeman‚ E. (2009) Lateline Business. Clearly the banks have not created value for the customer‚ employee or shareholder during the subprime crisis. In today’s business world we would like to think that our responsibility ends at the transaction level. In actual fact it does

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    preserve jobs‚ homes‚ savings‚ the economy‚ the shareholders of Bear‚ and the financial markets on Wall Street. There are many aspects to the Bear Stearns financial problem. Bear Stearns‚ founded in 1923‚ is an investment bank that specialized in subprime mortgage loans. These loans are usually given to people who have a below average credit score and could not be financed elsewhere. In return‚ these loan recipients pay a higher mortgage interest rate (Siegel 1). Bear Stearns has over 14‚000 employees

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    .................................. 1.2 Impact on Interest Rates...................................................... 1.3 Impact on Banking Sector.................................................... 1.4 Impact on Mortgages and Credit Lending Agencies............ 1.5 Impact on GDP..................................................................... 1.6 Impact on Inflation................................................................ 1.7 Impact on Employment in U.S.......

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    through various routes‚ with net capital inflows rising to a peak of $108 billion in 2007-08. These inflows resulted in a steep rise in bank lending to middle and upper class consumers for houses and automobiles. The crisis resulted from a combination of complex factors‚ including easy credit conditions during the 2002–2008 period that encouraged high-risk lending and borrowing practices; international trade imbalances; real-estate bubbles that have since burst; fiscal policy choices related to government

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    and thereby the economy of the country as well as an individual do undergo a downturn during the crisis. The Reasons for the crisis are varied and complex. Some of them include boom in the housing market‚ speculation‚ high risk mortgage loans and lending practices‚ securitization practices‚ inaccurate credit ratings and poor regulation. Due to Globalization‚ the Indian economy cannot be insulated from the financial crisis in the developed economies. The financial sector including the banking sector

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