Sentences with phrase «collapse of our financial system»

The shootings, like the collapse of our financial system in 2008 and the ongoing devastation to our environment, are just symptoms.

The cost of insurance against defaults by European banks reached an all - time record for that reason last Friday, and banks stopped lending to each other on the interbank market «portending an imminent collapse of the financial system.

A tax on individual transactions between financial institutions — based on the level of systemic risk that each transaction adds to the system — could essentially eliminate the risk of future collapse of the financial system, according to a new study recently published in the journal Quantitative Finance.

The same, in all cases, can be said of the collapse of financial systems.

To Thiel, his cryptocurrency investment is his hedge against the potential collapse of our financial system.

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The collapse of global financial system in 2008 wrecked that fantasy.

When the Bank of Canada cut interest rates in 2015 to offset the collapse of oil prices, it was worried about more than a blow to gross domestic product; it was also thinking about what mass firings in the oil patch could mean for the financial system.

The financial collapse of 2008 - 2009 did enormous damage to millions of lives, and left a great many people with a deep sadness, a feeling of alienation, and a deep and persistent sense that the system is somehow rigged.

The digital currency movement achieved liftoff at a moment when the global financial system appeared to be on the verge of collapse.

Remember subprime loans, the thing that brought the global financial system to the brink of collapse a decade ago?

This level approaches that witnessed in the U.S. and Britain just prior to the collapse of their respective financial systems and housing markets — a sobering thought.

Many books have already been written about the structural problems which were the foundation for a near collapse of the global financial system.

The system collapse could result in TSB paying fines and compensation, while the Bank of England's watchdog the Financial Conduct Authority said it plans to talk to the firm to understand what went wrong.

If our financial system ever collapses (or just goes into crisis), these types of investments will be at high risk.

The index is now at its highest since April 2008, several months before the collapse of Lehman Brothers brought the global financial system nearly to a halt.

Circling back to the mall / REIT ticking time - bomb, while the Fed can keep the stock market propped up as means of preventing an immediate nuclear melt - down in U.S. pensions (all of which are substantially «maxed - out» in their mandated equities allocation), the collapse of commercial mortgage - back securities (CMBS) will have the affect of launching a nuclear sub-missile directly into the side of the U.S. financial system.

The system threatens to collapse in such a way that will leave a legacy of financial cleanup costs for the bad debts that form the counterpart to the economy's «bad savings», that is, savings lent to speculators who use the money simply to buy existing properties rather than to create new assets.

With no loans being made and the world's largest financial institutions under significant threat of failure, the global financial system was under threat of collapse.

The collapse of the banking system in Argentina came very close to triggering a financial crisis in London, the major international financial center.

Inflation has fallen basically straight down since the so - called super spike of 2008, which saw the price of oil surge briefly to $ 147 in the summer before the financial system collapsed in the fall.

«If the yield continues to grow, it can lead to a massive exodus of capital from Treasuries, and even result in the collapse of the world dollar financial system,» Grachev said.

Two severe bear markets and a near - collapse of the global financial system pushed the average annual returns down to negative numbers.

His ground breaking research on complex systems modelling of debt - deflation was awarded the eminent Revere Award from the Real World Economics Review, describing Keen as the economist «who first and most clearly anticipated and gave public warning of the Global Financial Collapse and whose work is most likely to prevent another GFC in the future».

Created four years ago as the country's financial system teetered on the verge of collapse, TARP provided more than 700 banks with a combined $ 205 billion of capital by buying dividend - paying preferred shares.

It is nothing short of fiduciary negligence that Congress has allowed this dangerous banking system to remain unreformed eight long years after the greatest financial collapse since the Great Depression.

In recent years, with the financial collapse and lack of liquidity in the system, many muni bond investments sold off, opening up great opportunities for investors.

These strategies are manifold: firstly the acceptance of a new regulation of financial capital so that the whole system does not collapse.

The importance of network effects for the financial system is also stressed by Stefano Battiston, a network economist at ETH Zurich: «Recent research on contagion in financial networks has shown that network topology and positions of banks matter; the global financial network may collapse even when individual banks appear safe.

Recognize that DPS is at risk for financial collapse and develop a plan to replace DPS with a community «portfolio manager» board and superintendent who will see their role as overseeing a citywide system of high - quality schools rather than operating schools directly.

A mission that is critical — and a mission that will be rendered moot if the school system collapses under the weight of its financial crisis.

Following that I will be reviewingOn the Brink: Inside the Race to Stop the Collapse of the Global Financial System by former Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson.

Following that I will be reviewing On the Brink: Inside the Race to Stop the Collapse of the Global Financial System by former Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson.

My next book review will be On the Brink: Inside the Race to Stop the Collapse of the Global Financial System by former Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson I will be posting the review in a few days.

With no loans being made and the world's largest financial institutions under significant threat of failure, the global financial system was under threat of collapse.

Few investors will ever forget the terror of the financial crisis of 2008 - 2009, when the global financial system was on the verge of complete collapse and many people were convinced we were headed for another depression.

Over the past several weeks, the contagion emanating from the collapse of the market for complex structured assets that contain subprime mortgages has shaken the municipal bond market, one of the safest and most stable parts of the US financial system.

In the graphic below, we see that inflation - adjusted savings as a percentage of disposable income (DPI) has dropped to levels not seen since shortly before the financial system collapsed in 2008.

If Paulson had foreseen the collapse of the global financial system there were much easier ways to profit from (and express) that viewpoint.

However, the interconnectedness of stock markets and financial systems around the world is now so great that, were such a no - return crash to occur, it would probably be accompanied by the total collapse of the whole economic system.

Its three - act structure is set in iconic places of the economic crisis that swept the world in 2008: London, whose banking system collapsed; Reykjavik, the capital of Iceland, whose economy was wrecked in two weeks by a succession of strategic errors in managing the crisis» effects on the three local banks; and Dubai, a Middle East financial hub.

What worries me is that the same clique pushing for a global CO2 tax are the same sociopaths rigging our economies and our financial system and promote a shooting war with a nuclear power to provide them with a scape goat when the house of cards collapses.

According to the administration what we got for our $ 5 trillion was avoiding a collapse of the world financial system so we got a severe recession instead of circa 1929 global depression.

Such a restructuring might avoid a total collapse of a large financial system, and could even be of benefit to the environment.

«Built for a post-trust world, Bitreserve's real - time transparency system eliminates the opportunities for fraud and destructive risk - taking that have caused the collapse of banks and other financial institutions throughout history,» the startup's website reads.

It acquired locations from other electronics retailers who were struggling amidst a recession and the near collapse of the nation's financial system.

This is the same market that almost caused the collapse of the world's financial system two years ago and is still at historic lows.