How Credit Crises Happen


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The most recent credit crisis brought to light many problems with our financial system. This book offers plain-spoken explanations of what went wrong during the past crises and explains how to prevent future problems.




The Financial Crisis Inquiry Report


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The Financial Crisis Inquiry Report, published by the U.S. Government and the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission in early 2011, is the official government report on the United States financial collapse and the review of major financial institutions that bankrupted and failed, or would have without help from the government. The commission and the report were implemented after Congress passed an act in 2009 to review and prevent fraudulent activity. The report details, among other things, the periods before, during, and after the crisis, what led up to it, and analyses of subprime mortgage lending, credit expansion and banking policies, the collapse of companies like Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and the federal bailouts of Lehman and AIG. It also discusses the aftermath of the fallout and our current state. This report should be of interest to anyone concerned about the financial situation in the U.S. and around the world.THE FINANCIAL CRISIS INQUIRY COMMISSION is an independent, bi-partisan, government-appointed panel of 10 people that was created to "examine the causes, domestic and global, of the current financial and economic crisis in the United States." It was established as part of the Fraud Enforcement and Recovery Act of 2009. The commission consisted of private citizens with expertise in economics and finance, banking, housing, market regulation, and consumer protection. They examined and reported on "the collapse of major financial institutions that failed or would have failed if not for exceptional assistance from the government."News Dissector DANNY SCHECHTER is a journalist, blogger and filmmaker. He has been reporting on economic crises since the 1980's when he was with ABC News. His film In Debt We Trust warned of the economic meltdown in 2006. He has since written three books on the subject including Plunder: Investigating Our Economic Calamity (Cosimo Books, 2008), and The Crime Of Our Time: Why Wall Street Is Not Too Big to Jail (Disinfo Books, 2011), a companion to his latest film Plunder The Crime Of Our Time. He can be reached online at www.newsdissector.com.




Financial Crises Explanations, Types, and Implications


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This paper reviews the literature on financial crises focusing on three specific aspects. First, what are the main factors explaining financial crises? Since many theories on the sources of financial crises highlight the importance of sharp fluctuations in asset and credit markets, the paper briefly reviews theoretical and empirical studies on developments in these markets around financial crises. Second, what are the major types of financial crises? The paper focuses on the main theoretical and empirical explanations of four types of financial crises—currency crises, sudden stops, debt crises, and banking crises—and presents a survey of the literature that attempts to identify these episodes. Third, what are the real and financial sector implications of crises? The paper briefly reviews the short- and medium-run implications of crises for the real economy and financial sector. It concludes with a summary of the main lessons from the literature and future research directions.




Money, Greed, and Risk


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This volume chronicles the evolution of modern financial markets against the backdrop of some of the finance world's most infamous crises. Financial periods are intricately and historically examined, simplifying the financial instruments and techniques so that even the non-financial reader can identify the pattern that Morris uncovers in the lead up to a crisis.




Financial Crises


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The lingering effects of the economic crisis are still visible—this shows a clear need to improve our understanding of financial crises. This book surveys a wide range of crises, including banking, balance of payments, and sovereign debt crises. It begins with an overview of the various types of crises and introduces a comprehensive database of crises. Broad lessons on crisis prevention and management, as well as the short-term economic effects of crises, recessions, and recoveries, are discussed.




Hidden in Plain Sight


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The 2008 financial crisis—like the Great Depression—was a world-historical event. What caused it will be debated for years, if not generations. The conventional narrative is that the financial crisis was caused by Wall Street greed and insufficient regulation of the financial system. That narrative produced the Dodd-Frank Act, the most comprehensive financial-system regulation since the New Deal. There is evidence, however, that the Dodd-Frank Act has slowed the recovery from the recession. If insufficient regulation caused the financial crisis, then the Dodd-Frank Act will never be modified or repealed; proponents will argue that doing so will cause another crisis. A competing narrative about what caused the financial crisis has received little attention. This view, which is accepted by almost all Republicans in Congress and most conservatives, contends that the crisis was caused by government housing policies. This book extensively documents this view. For example, it shows that in June 2008, before the crisis, 58 percent of all US mortgages were subprime or other low-quality mortgages. Of these, 76 percent were on the books of government agencies such as Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. When these mortgages defaulted in 2007 and 2008, they drove down housing prices and weakened banks and other mortgage holders, causing the crisis. After this book is published, no one will be able to claim that the financial crisis was caused by insufficient regulation, or defend Dodd-Frank, without coming to terms with the data this book contains.




Crisis and Response


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Crisis and Response: An FDIC History, 2008¿2013 reviews the experience of the FDIC during a period in which the agency was confronted with two interconnected and overlapping crises¿first, the financial crisis in 2008 and 2009, and second, a banking crisis that began in 2008 and continued until 2013. The history examines the FDIC¿s response, contributes to an understanding of what occurred, and shares lessons from the agency¿s experience.




Banks on the Brink


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International capital flow and domestic financial market structures explain why some countries are more vulnerable to banking crises.




Banking World Finance Credit Crises


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This book presents the first Editorial under the title 'From 1870 - Until Now' as well as the aftermath of the 2007 - 2008 Credit Crisis, up to halfway 2020, to help understand what is going on in the world. The financial crisis that became manifest in 2007 and deepened further in 2008 was totally wrongly treated by the ruling politicians at the time and was not resolved professionally. The muddy misery in the years 2010, 2011 and 2012 was closely followed at the time and the essence of it was then published every quarter. Along with many educational Facts and interesting Tips for everyone. Various main issues have been explained in Editorials. The misery continues as long as politicians do not implement the measures that are absolutely necessary. Read this book, learn what you need to know to sustain yourself in this world. Try to always do that in order to live successfully and happily. APPENDIX to this book: Chronicle Credit Crisis The chronicle begins on January 17, 2007 and presents what was in the news then about the developments in the financial world, with here and there the vision of author Jan Jacobs. Remediation, see Business Economics how to solve a credit crisis, explained on p.p. 44-46. In 2008, they should have closed the financial system casino instead of renovating it. The world is in need of a new financial system, what is explained throughout this book. My opinion, concluded at the end, and finally you can form your own judgement. Where are we now, in 2020? When dictator Erdogan intervened with the Turkish Central Bank, the Turkish economy collapsed. Donald Trump, USA President, did the same like Erdogan. March 3, under harsh pressure from Trump, FED rate fell half a percent from 1.75 % to 1.25 %. The idea was to get stock prices to rise due to the fall in interest rates, but the reasoning of serious investors was away by this. In a few days, the Dow Jones Index dropped to 21,297.88 on March 12. Trump had learned nothing from it, it got even worse, on Sunday March 15, FED interest rate went to almost zero in one fell swoop. On March 16, 2020, Stock Exchanges plunged down completely worldwide. Corona Crisis, Covid-19 is not Ebola, we have to make that distinction. A flu virus, an accident at home or in traffic, these are all only minimal risks. Fear became the guiding principle; intellect of government sank further away, fortunately not everywhere. Many people panicked, and governments got stressed. The old respect for the truth no longer applies above all, even for far too many scientists. Fake news, Twitter nonsense, it goes on. Literal quotation from p. 26 in the book: "The media nowadays barely have quality, it's almost all about ratings. Politicians, they mostly do not try to pursue ideals to the people anymore." Manifest already in 2009. Politicians pass laws and promise the people a lot, but without proper financing, it doesn't mean anything. All states, companies and individuals need to exercise self-control in spending, as revenues can drop suddenly in the event of unexpected calamity (so-called Cassandra, prepare for any natural or unnatural disaster) and also in anticipated long-term additional spending. Former inhabitants of a country were the owners of the capital in that country and both import and export of capital were marginal. Meanwhile it is no longer clear who owns what exactly, nor where the owners are located; homeownership is traceable as is the ownership of some other things but more and more capital gets out of sight.




Crashed


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WINNER OF THE LIONEL GELBER PRIZE A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2018 ONE OF THE ECONOMIST'S BOOKS OF THE YEAR A NEW YORK TIMES CRITICS' TOP BOOK "An intelligent explanation of the mechanisms that produced the crisis and the response to it...One of the great strengths of Tooze's book is to demonstrate the deeply intertwined nature of the European and American financial systems."--The New York Times Book Review From the prizewinning economic historian and author of Shutdown and The Deluge, an eye-opening reinterpretation of the 2008 economic crisis (and its ten-year aftermath) as a global event that directly led to the shockwaves being felt around the world today. We live in a world where dramatic shifts in the domestic and global economy command the headlines, from rollbacks in US banking regulations to tariffs that may ignite international trade wars. But current events have deep roots, and the key to navigating today’s roiling policies lies in the events that started it all—the 2008 economic crisis and its aftermath. Despite initial attempts to downplay the crisis as a local incident, what happened on Wall Street beginning in 2008 was, in fact, a dramatic caesura of global significance that spiraled around the world, from the financial markets of the UK and Europe to the factories and dockyards of Asia, the Middle East, and Latin America, forcing a rearrangement of global governance. With a historian’s eye for detail, connection, and consequence, Adam Tooze brings the story right up to today’s negotiations, actions, and threats—a much-needed perspective on a global catastrophe and its long-term consequences.