The study found employees had contributed 8.4 % of their salaries to their 401 (k) accounts, the highest rate since
just before the financial crisis hit in 2008.
Though last year's contribution — made from revenue on its portfolio of bond holdings — declined from 2016, it was well above the average in
years before the financial crisis.
For the time being, the federal government is spending less in total interest expense across all of its obligations than it did
before the financial crisis in 2007.
Although private student loans were much more
common before the financial crisis at the end of the last decade, they have been continually rising over the past six or seven years.
It was just
before the financial crisis so I think it was good because, in a time of crisis, companies want small studios as they can afford their rates.
The same criticisms of variable annuity contracts, however, were
valid before the financial crisis — and those contracts nonetheless helped many people survive the 50 percent plunge in the stock market.
Both figures are at the highest levels since the financial crisis of 2008, though the number of offerings remains below the level
set before the financial crisis.
About a decade
ago before the financial crisis, lenders were giving out private student loans to borrowers who were not ready to pay them back, much like the issue with mortgages.
Buffett seemed to be the «savior» of Goldman Sachs when he invested $ 5 billion in the company in 2009, a few
weeks before the financial crisis ended of its own accord.
As Paul Krugman points out Reifschneider, working with John Williams and using the same FRBUS model, concluded that the ZLB was only a very small issue less than a
decade before the financial crisis led to an 8 year stretch of zero rates.
U.S. benchmark indexes ended last week at all - time highs, with the Dow topping 17,000 for the first time, as the latest government payrolls report showed job growth blew past expectations last month and the unemployment rate fell to the lowest level since
before the financial crisis peaked six years ago.
«I had some clients whose retirements were saved because of [variable annuity] contracts they
purchased before the financial crisis,» said Marc Ruiz, a financial advisor with Oak Partners and a registered rep with SII Investments.