Sentences with phrase «did during the financial crisis»

If you want to screw over savers, do nothing, let deflation rule the day, and watch interest rates collapse (as they did during the financial crisis).
The buffer is put in place to ensure that lenders do not get themselves into the same positions that they did during the financial crisis, protecting themselves from debt going bad and triggering another credit crunch.
While junk bonds may not represent a systemic risk as credit derivatives did during the financial crisis, they can be one of the more effective leading economic indicators.
Shields said this deal appears more like the ones Buffett was doing during the financial crisis by using Berkshire's cash to help finance other deals.
If and when a slump arrives, investors who have more exposure to VC and private equity firms will have a hard time extracting their money quickly, just as they did during the financial crisis.
We aren't seeing big banks or other financial institutions teetering on the edge of bankruptcy like we did during the financial crisis of 2007 - 2009.
The State of New York could govern the city of New York if it chose to do so, and arguably did during the financial crisis in the 1970's with the financial control board.
If they rise too much, or if bankers get too scared, the financial system will seize like it did during the financial crisis.

Not exact matches

Low interest rates were necessary to juice the economy during the financial crisis, but they are now, by many measures, doing more harm than good.
The larger assembly of rich countries such as Germany and big emerging markets such as China did good work during the financial crisis.
The government stopped short, however, of bailing out the company as it did with major banks during the 2007 - 09 financial crisis.
During the financial crisis of 2008 Michelin didn't lay people off, but reduced work hours while continuing to give employees full benefits.
Although a few municipalities did default this year, the overall volume of defaults actually eased, deeply wounding Whitney's reputation for prescience that she'd earned during the financial crisis.
Many advisors have been seeking to add 401 (k) business in part to provide a stable income stream that they didn't have during the financial crisis, but also because reforms in Washington, D.C., provide increased opportunities to fee - only and fee - based advisors.
During the years since the global financial crisis, we have been doing a lot of thinking and research to improve our understanding of the nexus between monetary policy and financial stability.
«I don't think bitcoin is prevalent enough at the moment to be a systemic threat in the way we experienced during the financial crisis other threats; it needs watching carefully but I don't think we're there yet,» said Andrew Bailey, chief executive of the Financial Conduct Authority, during a Thursday interview on BBC's Nfinancial crisis other threats; it needs watching carefully but I don't think we're there yet,» said Andrew Bailey, chief executive of the Financial Conduct Authority, during a Thursday interview on BBC's NFinancial Conduct Authority, during a Thursday interview on BBC's Newsnight.
Paragraph 181 of the complaint does note that the Intel plans» hedge fund portfolio lost 17 % during the 2008 financial crisis.
This reflects, at least in part, a view that their OTC derivative markets are small and, relatedly, did not pose a problem for their banks during the financial crisis.
This is also happening at a time when institutional investors are thinking twice about allocating money to hedge funds, which didn't provide much in the way of diversification when the markets tumbled during the financial crisis yet charged famously high fees for their services.
Michael Hewson, Senior Market Analyst at CMC Markets in London, says Carney has gained a lot of «brownie points» for his handling of the financial crisis, given that Canada was the only G7 country that did not have to receive a banking bailout during the financial crisis that started in 2008.
A couple of weeks ago I posted some information about the «Great Depression of 1873 - 1896 ″ to make the point that there was no depression, great or otherwise, during this period, but that the period did contain some financial crises / panics.
It is important to note that the value of real estate did not fall during the financial crisis because it is a volatile (less stable) asset class.
In the 1850s and 1860s, following the bursting of speculative bubbles in the US and UK railroad sectors, it lent freely to institutions to prevent financial panic, as it did during the Barings crisis of the 1890s.
While these repayment options can provide an important lifeline during a short - term financial crisis, they do come with a rather steep price.
The Canadian economy did not decline as much as other G8 economies during the 2008 - 2009 financial crisis and our recovery, while weak, has been better than most.
He noted that the People's Bank of China operates as a mechanism of the central government, allowing it to tackle recent issues even more creatively than the U.S. Fed did under Ben Bernanke during the financial crisis.
«Historically a lot of agricultural investments were tax driven and that did not result in very positive outcomes,» Mr Brandweiner said, possibly referring to the spate of collapsed managed investment schemes such as Timbercorp during the financial crisis.
Barclays insists that all the banks were doing it, particularly during the financial crisis in 2008.
Brown says he's made it clear he doesn't like protectionism for years, and especially during the financial crisis.
What he did talk about, during a surprisingly old - fashioned opening monologue, was Donald Trump's presidential aspirations, the Greek financial crisis and the dullness of soccer....
Let's not forget Tesla nearly went out of business 10 years ago, during the financial crisis, when GM actually DID go out of business.
Based on the statistics above, what we notice most is how much better the NOBL index has done since inception, now this is somewhat biased as the SDY index has been in existence for longer and this includes during the global financial crisis which significantly impacts its results since inception.
I did buy stock in a local bank during the 2008 financial crisis.
I looked at the yields during the 2007 — 8 financial crisis and didn't see evidence for this.
They are certainly big companies in their industries, but are they 1) likely to be insolvent during a credit crisis, and 2) does the failure of any one of them affect the solvency of other financial firms?
The financial crisis showed us that investors, portfolio managers, and regulators do have feelings, even if those feelings were mostly disappointment and regret during the last few years.
During the financial crisis of 2008 — 09, many companies had a rough time and did not raise their dividends.
Even during the global financial crisis CocaCola still managed to grow revenues, only in 2009 did it see a small pull - back, but nothing to be concerned about.
I got a bit spooked during the financial crisis and didn't want to have all my eggs in one basket.
The graph below actually illustrates how PGX (orange) underperformed bonds (green) during the past 6 years and even did worse than the stock market (purple) during 2008 - 2009 financial crisis.
This can be seen during the 2008 financial crisis, but most people who are young and think can do it themselves did not live through that.
During the most recent financial crises, the Fed changed the reserve requirements for member banks, and in so doing, increased the availability of funds.
In a back - test of a simplified version of the strategy, the market - timing component did not add much to the strategy's performance while it worsened the drawdown during the financial crisis.
Eliminating costly contracts that may be difficult to maintain during a financial crisis — only commit to services / features that you really can't do without
Now, it didn't help that I was seeking credit during the financial crisis of 2008, when every institution was tightening its lending policies, but I couldn't even get a Target store credit card (I had to settle for their debit card) and had to submit extra «identifying documents» to create a PayPal account.
Nevada had a low contribution to total returns because of their high exposure to the casino / gaming industry, which did poorly during and after the financial crisis.
I presume, without doing all the homework involved, it began to run out of capital after losses during the 2008/9 financial crisis.
During the financial crisis (which we measure from January 2007 — March 2009), quant funds did better than qual funds (3.29 % versus -4.77 %).
So you don't want to ratchet up your stock allocation, only to end up selling in a panic during a financial - crisis - style meltdown.
However, we have seen a slump in many emerging market economies, particularly as they did not fare well during or since the 2008 financial crisis.
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