Sentences with phrase «eve of the financial crisis»

But recently an economist friend reminded me of that last time that was the case: 2007, the eve of the financial crisis that triggered the Great Recession.

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Vlieghe was addressing questions regarding recent comments from the Bank of England's chief economist Andy Haldane likening the failure of economists to predict the 2008 financial crisis to Michael Fish's weather forecast on the eve of the Great Storm of 1987.

By 2007, on the eve of the global financial crisis, these had all declined to between 2 and 2 1/2 %.

Globally, there's more outstanding debt as a percentage of output today than there was on the eve of the global financial crisis.

J.C. Chandor's ensemble drama Margin Call is a thriller set mostly in an office building on the eve of the 2008 financial crisis.

A portrait of the eve of 2008's financial crisis that plays out with funereal inevitability, Margin Call loves speechifying, but the film is far more assured when lingering in the silence of its morally compromised characters.