ECONOMICS TO CURRENT EVENTS Applying Economics to Current Events Ivy Bridge of Tiffin University There are so many events going on in the world today. There is a housing market issue‚ health care reform issue‚ and companies fighting for paid sick leave from their jobs. There are many more this is just to name a few. The housing market is going to start booming again for a short time. The health care reform created by Obama will continue to be an issue for a long time‚ and companies are fighting
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the housing market also suffered‚ resulting in evictions‚ foreclosures and prolonged unemployment. The crisis played a significant role in the failure of key businesses‚ declines in consumer wealth estimated in trillions of US dollars‚ and a downturn in economic activity leading to the 2008–2012 global recession and contributing to the European sovereign-debt crisis. Causes for the crisis. The immediate cause of the crisis was the bursting of the United States housing bubble‚ which
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estate-based financial crisis to occur? To answer this question we have to look back at the historical data of housing market‚ banks‚ government policies and the economy as a whole and find out why this financial crisis occurred at first place. For the last 30 years house prices have have had a steady incline but as we hit year 2000-01 housing market had sudden change – loan supply went up‚ so did housing supply and demand and then sudden crash. What happened in 2001 that lead to price increase and then financial
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simultaneously. This includes decline in coincident measure of activities such as employment‚ investment and corporate profits. It’s worthy to note that there is no commonly accepted definition of global recession. The international monetary fund (IMF) states that a global recession is that which causes a slowdown in global growth to 3%or less. The last period that qualifies for such since 1985 is 2001-2002. At such‚ the current recession affects a substantial number of nations as at early 2009. US entered
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to them by credit rating agencies such as Standard and Poor’s. They would evaluate the loan and give it a rating based on a number of issues‚ and the banks know what level of interest to offer or if they should offer the loan at all. Before the housing bubble burst‚ banks were receiving good investment ratings on these loans‚ so they went ahead with the transactions. Now‚ were the banks aware that these loans were toxic? Did the credit rating agency? We don’t really know‚ because nobody has been
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caused an oversaturation of the market with minimal potential buyers. Before the recession‚ banks were giving out loans to people who could not afford them. Once the housing bubble burst‚ crumbling markets around the world‚ banks were forced to become more selective about potential borrowers. The economic crash didn’t just affect the housing market but also the auto market as many people purchase cars through loans. With abundant supplies of automobiles sitting at dealerships‚ inventories skyrocketed
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Domestic Housing Provision :Supply and Demand in the UK housing sector INTRODUCTION It was discovered that housing supply does not meet up with demand. Life expectancy rate is increasing caused by demands of housing of one person per households. (Wendy‚2010). From research it was discovered that 1.8 million households on English Local Authority housing registers a considerable level of overcrowding in the private and social housing standard. Education and health are affected by poor housing .However
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considered to be worst financial crisis since the Great Depression of the 1930s. Large financial institutions collapsed‚ banks received bailouts by the government‚ and stock markets plummeted as well. In result‚ people were being denied loans. The housing market became a problem because of financial issues and many people were unable to continue to pay their mortgages which resulted in evictions and foreclosures. Sellers’ homes’ remained on the market and were unable to be sold. There was an extreme
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economic performance. The global economic crisis is also characterized by falling stock market‚ housing market‚ collapse and bailout of large financial institutions and the economic/ financial suffering of the ordinary people who would experience soaring prices‚ job losses and the accompanying emotional trauma. What were the causes of the global economic crisis? The collapse of subprime loans in the US housing market (Case‚ Fair & Oster 2012:632-638) The phenomenal growth in the US mortgage lending
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The Giant Pool of Money Analysis The housing crisis that occurred less than a decade ago is a great example‚ and has become an extensively covered case study‚ of how dangerous certain biases and heuristics can become if left unchecked on a massive scale. Alex Blumberg and Adam Davidson‚ in collaboration with NPR News‚ put together a special program titled “The Giant Pool of Money‚” where they explore just how the phenomenon occurred and the underlying factors that contributed through sound bites
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