indirectly caused the ongoing 2007–2012 global financial crisis which started with the US subprime mortgage crisis. One of the main culprits that is often pointed to as one of the main triggers of the global financial crisis are the mortgage derivative products‚ where risky mortgages were packaged with more traditionally secure mortgages and sold to corporate investors and other banks as secure investment products. This packaging of mortgages is generally accepted to have masked the real risks that
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recession and mortgage fraud affecting the local businesses too? If the recession were a disease‚ it would be an epidemic. The City of Fairfield in Ohio has had many properties affected by mortgage fraud. These properties were sold at artificially inflated price which resulted with properties in the surrounding neighborhoods to also become artificially inflated. When that occurs‚ property taxes also artificially increase. As unqualified homeowners began to default on their inflated mortgages‚ properties
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Nowadays‚ the economy of the world plunges into an awkward situation. The entire world meets a global economic crisis or recession‚ especially in the United States. After World War Ⅱ‚ this recession is the biggest recession for the America. Most of people express worried about this recession; absolutely they recall the memory about the Great Depression which was the most enormous economic crisis in the American history. They are anxious because it seems like the United States is going through another
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more than $600‚000 past due on his home mortgage payments. The $5 million mort- gage on HAI LÚA’s Beverly Hills mansion was held by Countr ywide Financial Corporation. Unfortunately‚ millions of everyday Americans with mortgage balances only a fraction of Ed HAI LÚA’s have recently faced the unhappy prospect of losing their homes due to the worst financial crisis to strike the United States economy since the Great Depression. As that crisis quickly worsened and spread to the global
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financial crisis broke out in 2007‚ it presents a rapid growth trend reach to 102.93(%GDP) in 2011. Chinese shown a top point in 2010‚ which up to 33.5% of GDP while other years had fluctuated increase trend. In different countries have different reasons for these situations. In Greece‚ the main reason lead to the debt increase is high social welfare; the government needs more funds so they issue a large number of debentures. These debentures cause a big financial burden and lead the debt crisis broke
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The Fall Of Lehman Brothers (60 Min Documentary) And The Last Days Of Lehman Bros. (tele film) Presented by: Maheen Amer Malik ACF A Ben Daniels as John Thain CEO of Merrill Lynch before its merger with Bank of America James Cromwell as Henry Paulson American banker ‚ 74th Secretary of the Treasury Corey Johnson as Richard Fuld CEO Michael Landes as Zach (employee) & James Bolam as Ken Lewis (CEO‚ president‚ chairman of BOA. Focused on Last 3 Days of the bankruptcy.. America’s 4th largest investment
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financial crisis‚ brewing for a while‚ really started to show its effects in the middle of 2007 and into 2008. Around the world stock markets have fallen‚ large financial institutions collapsed or were bought out‚ and governments in even the wealthiest nations had to come up with rescue packages to bail out their financial systems. The root of the crisis is in banking rather than in securities or foreign exchange. The crisis started in the U.S in august 2007 with sub-prime mortgage crisis and households
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Throughout the past 40 or so years neoliberalism has dominated the governments‚ housing‚ technology and financial sector and has impacted on society in destructive ways. The contemporary peak of neoliberalism arises in terms of the 2008 financial crisis and lingering state of recession in its aftermath. Neoliberalism defined by Harvey (2005) is a model of capitalism which focuses on the economy and its deregulation to enable a free market based economic system. Hillyard and Tombs (2004) see neoliberalism
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In 1933‚ in the wake of the 1929 stock market crash and during a nationwide commercial bank failure and the Great Depression‚ two members of Congress put their names on what is known today as the Glass-Steagall Act (GSA). This act separated investment andcommercial banking activities. At the time‚ "improper banking activity"‚ or what was considered overzealous commercial bank involvement in stock market investment‚ was deemed the main culprit of the financial crash. According to that reasoning‚ commercial
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Asset-Liability Management “Asset-Liability Management (ALM) can be defined as the ongoing process of formulating‚ implementing‚ monitoring and revising strategies related to assets and liabilities to achieve an organization ’s financial objectives‚ given the organization ’s risk tolerances and other constraints”[1]. ALM also is known as balance sheet management. In banking activity the gap between assets and liabilities can bring some consequences where the following risks are arose
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