Sentences with phrase «biggest financial meltdown»

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The radio broadcasting business is undergoing a similar process as the brick - and - mortar meltdown, where PE firms piled into big retailers during the LBO boom before the Financial Crisis and left the sector strewn with over-indebted retailers that then got slammed by a structural shift to online that they no longer had the resources to follow.

The stock market meltdown that accompanied the financial crisis of 2008 - 2009 took a big bite out of Americans» retirement savings, forcing some to delay their retirement dreams.

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.

«If we had to pick one year for a big unexpected crisis — the geopolitical equivalent of the 2008 financial meltdown — it feels like 2018,» Bremmer and Kupchan said.

Any financial geek will be proud to own these key items such as golf club covers with the Enron logo stamped on them in remembrance of one of the biggest corporate meltdowns in recent history.

The first is to ensure that if banks are deemed «too big to fail» in the light of the recent meltdown in the financial sector, mutuals are promoted as a viable alternative form of financial organisation.

None of these, biggest threat is financial meltdown #greedybritain

Eight years on from the biggest market meltdown since the Great Depression, the key lessons of the crisis of 2008 still remain unlearned — and our financial system is just as vulnerable as ever.

The Jodie Foster - directed satire about the financial meltdown isn't especially original, but it's arguably more honest than Oscar favourite The Big Short

Amy Schumer and Judd Apatow delivered a laugh - a-minute clandestine rom - com with Trainwreck while Adam McKay chucked out comedy for drama with his erratic financial meltdown effort The Big Short.

Adam McKay dedicating the win for «The Big Short» to everyone who lost their homes and savings in the financial meltdown that the movie is based on.

Roach will direct from a script by Charles Randolph, an Oscar - winner himself for co-writing the financial meltdown film The Big Short.

«When this big crisis hit, my husband started to worry about our financial situation because it started to look like it was going to be a total meltdown.

Although risky mortgages were at the heart of the last financial meltdown, investors were willing to look the other way when it came to mREITs because these companies paid big dividends, often yielding more than 9 %.

For example, this article points out that Iceland's financial meltdown means big savings for outsiders (sorry Iceland, I know this is not exactly good news for you, but at least you can still take comfort in being the happiest people on Earth — see it's not all bad).

P. 1 was an across - the - board critical success, but the hugeness of the project, loose budgetary purse strings and the simultaneous American economic meltdown came together to cause the big free art fest to be a financial bust.

(For more, see «THE BIG PICTURE: Nuclear Financial Meltdown.)

The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), signed into law by US Democrats in response to the international financial meltdown of 2008, offered the biggest boost for renewables since President Carter first funded solar research in the»70s.

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