Sentences with phrase «a global financial meltdown»

Lastly, incoming MBAs are byproducts of the last global financial meltdown.

Apple.com was the exception in comScore's report on retail sales for Cyber Monday 2008, the biggest online shopping day in a year marked by global financial meltdown.

He later recalled that the global financial meltdown that led to the Great Recession could have been mitigated if the Fed had slashed interest rates «more dramatically» at the time.

BBC Does It Again: «In The Absence Of A Credible Plan We Will Have A Global Financial Meltdown In Two To Three Weeks» - IMF Advisor

As the global financial meltdown spreads to threaten General Motors and even the Euro, financial experts in well - tailored suits vie in the news media to frame how we arrived here and what should be done.

Summary: Great Britain's decision to leave the EU presages a global financial meltdown that could resemble the 1930s.

One of the most compelling sequences in the Oscar - winning Inside Job, Charles Ferguson's indictment of Wall Street's role in the 2008 global financial meltdown, involved not the banker culprits but their supporting cast.

A default could very easily lead to a massive global financial meltdown.

Positive assessments would point to his perceived strong handling of the global financial meltdown.

And, in fairness, the prime minister did have a strong case to make about the hesitant and confused manner in which the Tories reacted to last year's global financial meltdown.

If you want a say in how your local community should adapt to the changing economic circumstances caused by the global financial meltdown, make sure you write to your councillors today.

The prime minister is in Strasbourg to meet with MEPs about a European solution to the global financial meltdown.

Even so, spending dropped by 3 % in real terms for the 3 years after the global financial meltdown in 2008.

Released just in time for the global financial meltdown, this hymn to designer products features Isla Fisher, who demonstrated her comedic talent by stealing Wedding Crashers from both Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson — no small achievement.

In his first outing as 007, Pierce Brosnan races to stop an arms syndicate from using the GoldenEye satellite weapon to attack London and provoke a global financial meltdown.

«But immediately after the launch, Lehman Brothers collapsed (prompting a global financial meltdown), which resulted in that segment of the market shrinking dramatically.»

With many banks having cut back on their levels of issuing bad credit installment loans following the 2008 global financial meltdown.

This timely film travels from Washington to Burkino Faso to paint a series of portraits of the current global financial meltdown.

The Lehman Brothers collapse a year ago set off the global financial meltdown.

The subprime market did not cause the U.S. and global financial meltdowns by itself.

Q: My husband and I have been very happy Couch Potato investors, but I'm questioning the strategy after reading the latest edition of Aftershock: Protect Yourself and Profit in the Next Global Financial Meltdown, which says massive U.S. money - printing and debt will eventually cause rampant inflation and spiking interest rates.

In the aftermath of the global financial meltdown that ravaged 401 (k) accounts and decimated home values, a growing number of Americans are stretching their retirement savings by spending their golden years overseas.

Today the artists continue to profit from their youthful notoriety, and occasionally still find ways to turn the establishment on its head - such as when Hirst staged a $ 200 million one - man auction at Sotheby's in 1997, on the eve of the global financial meltdown.

At the same time, this sense of the omnipotence of American culture is under severe strain in the wake of the global financial meltdown.

But they are also susceptible to abrupt and rapid changes and crises, such as global financial meltdowns or the volatility of the global food system.

Stop me if this sounds familiar: A slew of large companies fail to disclose millions of dollars in speculative risks; iconic investment firms also neglect to scrutinize these risks; it all adds up to a global financial meltdown.

Those talks utlimately collapsed in the wake of the global financial meltdown.

His firm is known for its work in class actions relating to consumer issues, banking and shares: for example, it represented 32,000 convenience store owners in a successful challenge against the Office of Fair Trading, and 36,000 private shareholders in Northern Rock following the 2008 global financial meltdown.

The concept of blockchain, a distributed ledger, first came about just when the world was reeling from the effects of the 2007 global financial meltdown.

The fintech chief at the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS), the country's de facto central bank, has said that bitcoin is unlikely to cause a global financial meltdown similar to the Lehman Brothers bankruptcy in 2008.

Today's Financial Review today indicates that a recorded 22.8 % drop in IT job ads in the last 12 months, seems to give credence that the global financial meltdown has and will continue to significantly and negatively impact staff recruitment in IT as employers look to tighten belts and cut costs through greater permanent staff utilisation and fewer contractors.

As we witness one of the most significant global financial meltdowns in modern times, the acid test is — what level of priority will Indigenous affairs be given by the new government?

Not exact matches

Wall St villains now saviours Wall Street fund managers - the very people blamed for the sub prime crisis that sparked the global economic meltdown - will be given an almost free ride to buy $ US1 trillion worth of toxic assets crippling the financial system.

Indeed, little of substance about our vast, interconnected, highly leveraged, nontransparent, global financial system has changed since the crisis (see «Are We Ready for the Next Meltdown?

That would prevent a default that would clog the global river of credit — much like the collapse of Lehman Brothers in 2008 — sparking another financial markets meltdown.

But the downturn in the 1980s was caused by the sudden and massive increase in interest rates by the Paul Volcker - led Federal Reserve, not a meltdown of the global financial system.

«The meltdown of our global financial system was a direct result of inadequate checks and balances,» says Adam Lowry, co-founder and chief global sustainability officer of Method, which makes chemical - free household products.

After all, we were told at the time that if taxpayers didn't open their wallets and bail out the banks, we could face a complete meltdown of the global financial system and an economic fate rivaling the Great -LSB-...]

Aug 25, 2015: The «quant meltdown» of August 2007 and the subsequent unfolding of the global financial crisis highlighted the risks of crowded investment strategies.

This report describes a new age of growing crisis: food price spikes and oil price hikes, devastating weather events, financial meltdowns, and global contagion.

And, as long as the nation's current interventionist ideology holds sway, it will only be through a financial meltdown that the US's role as global policeman will come to a much - needed end.

The global economy has never recovered from the 2009 - 2010 financial meltdown and recession.

Rajan shows how the individual choices that collectively brought about the economic meltdown — made by bankers, government officials, and ordinary homeowners — were rational responses to a flawed global financial order in which the incentives to take on risk are incredibly out of step with the dangers those risks pose.

The global financial crisis of 2008 saw banks around the world bailed out to the tune of billions by governments worried that the entire financial system was in meltdown.

The drive to curb carbon emissions has waned further in the wake of financial meltdowns, global instability, and slumping public confidence in the science of climate change.

These include the consequences of global climate change, the potential for financial meltdowns, and wars involving weapons of mass destruction.

The global crisis for endangered species is more serious than the financial meltdown, with numbers of imperiled animals and plants rising at record rates, scientists are warning in a report released today.

Of interest mainly to US audiences — besides a prologue that evaluates the global consequences of Iceland's financial meltdown, Ferguson keeps his focus Stateside — it will end up reaping similar plaudits to Ferguson's Oscar - nominated debut «No End in Sight,» if people don't find that the subject has been sufficiently combed - through in both news and entertainment media over the last two years.

The stock pays a 5.72 % dividend yield and is down about 40 % in 52 weeks due to the global meltdown in financials.

The financial meltdown in 2008 drove investors to the dollar as the global safe haven, but in early 2009 that status faded as fears of financial collapse melted.