Sentences with phrase «cause of the financial crisis»

He argues that so - called secrecy jurisdictions were among the causes of the financial crisis, and claims the offshore network has quietly been encouraged by U.S. elites.

Proprietary trading was by no means the cause of the financial crisis, but it did worsen a dire situation.

The Big Short, the film adaptation of Michael Lewis» book of the same name about the causes of the financial crisis, opens in UK cinemas this weekend.

One of the root causes of the financial crisis was global imbalances: America's super-sized current account deficit and China's equally massive surplus.

«Now as we all know, credit unions were not a primary cause of the financial crisis.

It has been really disheartening to see our media gang up on the workers and their unions with this disinformation, while doing little to criticize exorbitant finance sector and executive compensation, which even Bank of Canada governor Carney acknowledged were one of causes of the financial crisis.

The Big Short, the film adaptation of Michael Lewis» book of the same name about the causes of the financial crisis, opens in UK cinemas this weekend.

The call of protest movements such as Occupy for recognition of the gulf in influence and economic resources between the super-wealthy (the 1 per cent)-- to whom the causes of the financial crisis are usually attributed — and the rest of us (the 99 per cent) resonates with republican concerns.

The Occupy movement was right to pinpoint inequality as a cause of the financial crisis, a Bank of England director admitted last night.

This relationship creates a perverse incentive for «Too Big To Fail» banks to take more risks than they would otherwise — a key cause of the financial crisis of 2008.

But the compelling central idea of Masters of Nothing has such an ignorance right at its heart — 2010 intake Conservative MPs Matthew Hancock and Nadhim Zahawi argue that the cause of the financial crisis of 2007 - 08 can be found in our almost universal unwillingness to own up to our own irrationality.

In a forthcoming paper, Haldane uses ecological thinking to propose a range of preventive policy measures (see ««Haircuts» identified as a cause of financial crisis»).

But let me go through the causes of the financial crisis one by one:

Governments haven't adequately addressed the causes of the financial crisis and may be sowing the seeds for future problems by borrowing, he said.

Not only do you get a lucid perspective on the causes of the financial crisis, but you get to see firsthand how corporations deliberately the word sound risk management principles in order to make money in the short term.

If you believe that people are rational and markets are efficient, this will largely determine your views on gun control (unnecessary), consumer protection laws (caveat emptor), welfare programs (too many unintended consequences), derivatives regulation (let a thousand flowers bloom), whether you should invest in passive index funds or hyperactive hedge funds (index funds only), the causes of financial crises (too much government intervention in housing and mortgage markets), and how the government should or shouldn't respond to them (the primary financial role for government should be producing and verifying information so that it can be incorporated into market prices).

The prime cause of the financial crisis was a buildup of private debt encouraged by the tax code and the Federal Reserve.

We're tasked not only with investigating the causes of the financial crisis but looking at specific issues that Congress has enumerated in the Fraud Enforcement Recovery Act which formed the Commission.

We were formed by Congress in 2009 to investigate the causes of the financial crisis both globally and domestically.

One of the main causes of the financial crisis was that mortgage lenders issued loans to people that they knew could not pay back.

The causes of this financial crisis were known long ago but no one could stop that.

The Big Short, the film adaptation of Michael Lewis» book of the same name about the causes of the financial crisis, opens in UK cinemas this weekend.

In 2010, Tony had the opportunity to be a part of the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission, a bipartisan commission tasked with investigating the cause of the financial crisis of 2007 - 2010.

Liberal activists and some Democratic lawmakers have been pressing Obama for months to launch a broader investigation into the causes of the financial crisis.

Not exact matches

Due to the order cushion in 2008, sales actually increased during the worst part of the financial crisis, from $ 3.6 billion in 2008 to $ 3.9 billion in 2009 — but then, the order drop - off caused sales to plummet to just over $ 3 billion in 2010 and 2011.

Secondly, he noted «the root causes of the global crisis have not been prop ¬ erly tackled» with the financial system remaining «the Achilles heel of the world economy» and thirdly, «little progress is being made in reducing working poverty and vulnerable forms of employment such as informal jobs and undeclared work.»

And in a reversal of fortune, the financial crisis caused a big shift in the mortgage market, hugely benefiting LendingTree.

Her bi-partisan background as CEO of FINRA, Chairman of CFTC and as an SEC Commissioner positions her well to reform the regulatory body that missed much of the financial crisis causes and fraudsters like Bernie Madoff and Allen Stanford.

This cycle was partly caused by the explosion of credit in the wake of the 2008 global financial crisis.

The index dropped more or less steadily until the worst moments of the financial crisis in fall 2008, causing the full - on crash, and it began to turn around only in March 2009.

And despite America's spending habits, the greenback is still seen as a safe haven whenever financial crises — including ones caused by Americans — hit because most major countries want to maintain the value of their national reserves, which include dollar - denominated assets.

The rapid growth of debt in China since the global financial crisis has also been cause for concern... and rightly so.

I would guess that there is a much sharper drop in the chance of your business surviving for 2 years during a recession caused by a financial crisis where it is much more difficult to raise funding.

At the core of the Crapo bill is the assumption that the Dodd - Frank financial overhaul was overly aggressive and harmed smaller banks in attempting to rein in the larger financial institutions that caused the 2008 financial crisis.

The financial crisis of 2008 - 09 and the recession it caused didn't do much for the reputations of many policy makers around the world, but they've been quite good for the careers of Stephen Harper and Mark Carney:

After the Great Recession of 2008, the SEC was instrumental in prosecuting the financial institutions that caused the crisis and returning billions of dollars to investors.

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These crises began in the emerging world and caused very substantial damage to the economies and financial systems of a large number of emerging market economies.

However, given the uncertainties caused by the financial crisis, the Harper Government introduced the «risk adjustment factor» in its October 2010 Update of Economic and Fiscal Projections, whereby the average of the private sector economic forecasts for nominal GDP was adjusted downwards for fiscal planning purposes.

Is $ 11 billion a lot to pay for causing some of the mischief that caused the financial crisis?

Nouriel Roubini, one of a handful of economists said to have foreseen the financial crisis, counts 10 things that could cause trouble, if they aren't doing so already, including the bursting of asset - price bubbles, unusually weak business investment, and extreme income inequality.

Feb 7, 2014 - More than five years since the beginning of the global financial crisis, policymakers across the world continue to debate its root causes while economists pour over charts and data hoping to find clues as to what...

Paul Krugman and others have blamed these financial crises on the Gold Standard, but, as explained in a well - researched article by Brian Domitrovic, the financial crises of the 1800s had similar causes to the financial crises of the 1900s and 2000s: monetary inflation and government meddling.

One of the causes of the 2008 financial crisis was that no one knew what was in the derivatives.

While the world has been laser - focused on the woes of the heavily - indebted PIIGS nations for the last couple of years, property markets in Northern and Western European countries have been bubbling up to dizzying new heights in a repeat performance of the very property bubbles that caused the global financial crisis in the first place.

So, fractional reserve banking caused financial panics and boom - bust economic cycles in the US prior to the creation of the Fed, but crises and recessions in the pre-Fed era were relatively short and the economy tended to recover far more quickly.

Giancarlo believes that the financial crisis of 2008 has caused globalization to reverse.

Italy's political class has struggled to deal with the underlying causes of the country's malaise, including a loss of international competitiveness and the stagnant productivity of its business sector that began well before the European financial crisis of recent years.

After all, how many of the self - serving excesses and moral compromises that caused the financial crisis of 2008 - 2009 would have been avoided if mortgage brokers, bankers, and others had lived by an inner scorecard?

However, it is reasonably safe to assume that Apple's debt levels won't cause any sort of financial crisis.