Financial Crisis of 2008 Before the financial crisis of 2008‚ houses had always been rising in value so why would this all of a sudden change? Investors had found a great way to make money in the mortgage market and it was not just benefiting them‚ it was benefiting everyone. Exploring the lack of regulation in the market and also human behavior‚ I am going to break down what caused the financial crisis of 2008. The two videos‚ “Crisis of Credit‚” and “Mind Over Money‚” are my main sources of
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Banking crisis To have a better understanding of 2008-2009 financial crisis we need to know where does it start and why it become global issue. The main reason for this financial meltdown of the economy was the Collateral debt obligation and rating agencies who rate them. CDO is acronym for Collateralized debt obligation. Longstaff and Arvind (2008) describe CDO as: “financial claim to the cash flows generated by a portfolio of debt securities or‚ equivalently‚ a basket of credit default swaps
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Victoria Ivashina and David Scharfstein (2010) point out that the financial crisis of 2008 affects economy by the decline in new loans in bank area and there are two stresses on bank liquidity led banks to cut lending which are commercial and industrial loans stresses. The data for the writers’ investigation are from Reuters’ DealScan database instead of C＆I - which means commercial and industrial – loans announced by Federal Reserve Board (FRB). The reason maybe that DealScan mainly contains syndicated
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economy is a major downturn in economic activity‚ including economic recessions in many of the most powerful countries in the world. At the end of 2008‚ the U.S‚ Japan‚ Germany‚ France‚ and the European Union as a whole‚ observed that the economy was moving at a slow space and at that point the declared recession. The financial crisis also known as the subprime crisis became noticeable when the U.S housing bubble sparked a fierce global economy crisis affecting the financial and industrial sectors of
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The 2008 Financial Crisis The United States economy is built on credit and combined with the reality that greed played a large part in the events leading up to the Global Financial Crisis (GFC)‚ the United States experienced one of the its worst financial crisis in its history. Easy credit‚ the housing slump‚ banks holding risky mortgages and tax regulations all played a significant part in causing the GFC of 2008/09. The major cause of the 2008 Financial Crisis is the Subprime Mortgage and Subprime
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THE GLOBAL ECONOMIC MELTDOWN Economies of the world all have their periods of rise and fall. No economy can experience total stability over a period of time- there must be some forms of rise or fall in the stability of the economy. Today‚ virtually every country in the world is affected by what happens in other countries. Some of these effects are a result of political events‚ such as the overthrow of one government in favor of another. But a great deal of the interdependence among the nations
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Global financial crisis 2008 Hamburger crisis is the crisis that occurred in United State around the end of 2007. This crisis start from the policy of United State’s government by changed the policy of giving credit to customer. At first‚ bank tried to chose the best customer for give them a credit. After that bank needs more customers‚ so bank give a credit to unemployed customer. At first‚ everything was going well‚ then most of investors turn to invest on the property in order to speculate those
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Return of Depression Economics and the Crisis of 2008‚ Paul Krugman‚ has several rewarding occupations; he is an economics and international affairs professor at Princeton University‚ Centenary Professor at the London School of Economics‚ and also a widely known columnist for The New York Times‚ which he received the title as “the most important political columnist in America” by The Washington Monthly. Krugmans’ book‚ The Return of Depression Economics and the Crisis of 2008‚ was highly praised
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Introduction: The economic and financial crisis from 2008 to 2009‚ also known as the global financial crisis‚ was considered to be the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression. The general situation at financial markets has been additionally complicated by introduction of new financial products and another mode of operations including globalization. Global financial markets seem to be playing different function in economy and it has been working due to new regulations. Introduction of new
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English Dossier Miléna Gandroz 2A Cycle ICM What are the causes and the consequences of the global financial crisis of 2008? SOMMAIRE INTRODUCTION 3 WHY IT HAPPENED? 4 1. Deregulation policy 4 2. Securitization of mortgages 4 HOW IT HAPPENED? 6 1. The subprime crisis 6 2. The financial crisis 6 WHAT ARE THE CONSEQUENCES? 7 1. In the financial sector 7 2. In the United States 8 3. Abroad 8 WHAT IS HAPPENING NOW? 8 1. Some things are changing 8
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