Sentences with phrase «financial meltdown for»

Just in case you missed the 2008 financial meltdown for whatever reason, you should know that investments are inherently risky.

Shadow business secretary Chuka Umunna has rejected suggestions a cut in union funding would mean financial meltdown for Labour.

It may take a full financial meltdown for D.C. to roll up its sleeves.

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Wall St villains now saviours Wall Street fund managers - the very people blamed for the sub prime crisis that sparked the global economic meltdown - will be given an almost free ride to buy $ US1 trillion worth of toxic assets crippling the financial system.

Indeed, little of substance about our vast, interconnected, highly leveraged, nontransparent, global financial system has changed since the crisis (see «Are We Ready for the Next Meltdown?

London's financial bosses urged the U.K. government to consider extending Brexit negotiations to a five - year transitional process in order for Britain to avoid a systemic economic meltdown.

Among the financial commentariat, there's quite a bit of worry that the most important post-crisis regulations will be whittled away in the coming years, setting us up for another meltdown.

«Especially in the wake of the financial meltdown, readers will hunger for Burton G. Malkiel's reassuring, authoritative, gimmick - free, and perennially best - selling guide to investing.

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.

Jim Rickards, the author of «Currency Wars,» «The Death of Money,» and «The New Case for Gold,» and most recently «The Road to Ruin,» is no stranger to financial meltdowns.

«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.

What Ottawa isn't considering, at least not publicly, is the return of economic conditions that would dramatically impact government revenue, not to mention a total financial meltdown that would require emergency stimulus spending (or a political need to meet calls for stimulus).

Five years after the financial industry's 2008 meltdown, Dickson's office enjoys a sterling reputation for its prudent and aggressive regulation of a banking sector that swanned through the financial crisis with hardly a scratch.

Neither Harper nor Carney can take credit for Canada's strengths going into the crisis, and they can't be blamed for the financial meltdown that caused the crisis.

«There's just a lack of capital and funding gap for small businesses, and it's really magnified in the U.S., where the financial meltdown of 2008 left a lot of businesses unable to access bank financing,» he says, adding social media has also been an immense help in promoting crowdfunding platforms.

The absence of proper consumer protection was a major contributing factor to the present financial meltdown, for «it has now become clear that abrogating sound state laws, particularly regarding consumer protection, created opportunity for regulatory arbitrage that resulted in a regulatory «race - to - the - bottom.

Mr. Tilson has co-authored two books, The Art of Value Investing: How the World's Best Investors Beat the Market (2013) and More Mortgage Meltdown: 6 Ways to Profit in These Bad Times (2009), was one of the authors of Poor Charlie's Almanack (2005), the definitive book on Berkshire Hathaway Vice Chairman Charlie Munger, and has written for Forbes, the Financial Times, Kiplinger's, the Motley Fool andTheStreet.com.

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Finally, while I had modest expectations for emerging market (EM) assets, I certainly missed the latest meltdown in EM currencies, many of which have been depreciating faster than during the financial crisis.

«Fears of [a] Chinese financial meltdown look to have been allayed for the time being,» explained Augustin Eden, a research analyst at Accendo Marketplaces.

Despite the fact that it is obvious to every literate American that Wall Street banksters caused the 2008 financial meltdown, Holder hasn't brought a single indictment against a banker for the sub-prime mortgage fraud, for the Madoff fraud, for the manipulation of the foreign exchange markets, for the manipulation of the commodities markets, for fraudulent debt collection practices, for fraudulent foreclosure practices.

Goldman Sachs has earned a reputation for taking risks in trading complicated products as a main player in the subprime mortgage derivatives that created an international financial meltdown a decade ago.

The newly - proposed course description for â $ ˜Financial Economicsâ $ ™, still contained among its contents the â $ ˜testing the efficiency of markets.â $ ™ When I objected to this, given the financial meltdown that we had just witnessed and the irrefutable evidence that this theory did not hold water, I was told that the theory of efficient financial markets still had to be tested to decide of its real - world relevance.

What I care about is who is smarter, has more experience with foreign policy, has done more to avert a financial meltdown that could very well have spelled disaster for the world economy, got rid of Ghadafi and Bin Laden, which is certainly more than Bush did, who has shown restraint in his remarks instead of recklessness.

Before the financial meltdown I was getting letters from banks pre-approving my husband and I for up to 1,000,000 loans.

I would like to claim full responsibility for the financial meltdown in 2008 and for the recent invention of everyone's favourite form of transport, the hoverboard»

Whatever the huffi ng and puffing of those who did not have to resort to a government bailout, everyone involved in the financial services industry has the taxpayer and political intervention to thank for preventing total meltdown.

«Wilson's tax returns say nothing about reports that he was forced out of his last hedge fund gig for shoddy investing or his complicity in the Wall Street excesses that caused the financial meltdown,» Jacobs said in a press release.

With the threat of financial meltdown just hours away, and the only hope of rescue resting on a morally dubious deal with the Foreign Minister of Kumranistan, the stage is set for a riotous comedy of sex, scandal and scheming.

The budget also provides an overall funding increase for public schools of 4 percent, although for some districts, the increases will not make up for a budget maneuver enacted seven years ago during a financial meltdown in Albany.

A dependable source at the NFF Secretariat told Sports Vanguard exclusively that the federation which is facing a huge financial meltdown is seriously considering mustering the courage to call for a renegotiation of the deal which many analysts believe has never been in the interest of the federation.

Schneiderman, who is running for a second term, pushed for tougher settlement terms with large, mortgage - holding banks in the wake of the housing crisis and subsequent financial meltdown.

«After the worst financial meltdown in a generation, you'd have to be crazy to think that handing our Social Security dollars over to Wall Street is a good idea, but that's just what Congressman John Boehner stands for,» said state Democratic Party Chairman Jay Jacobs.

Gordon Brown's efforts to steer Britain through the economic crisis, avoiding a total meltdown of the financial sector, were not given enough credit, according to the magazine, but it said: «The government is largely responsible for the current fiscal deficit.

Comptroller Tom DiNapoli says his office is beginning a monitoring system to identify municipalities most at risk for a financial meltdown.

Even so, spending dropped by 3 % in real terms for the 3 years after the global financial meltdown in 2008.

These include the consequences of global climate change, the potential for financial meltdowns, and wars involving weapons of mass destruction.

The global crisis for endangered species is more serious than the financial meltdown, with numbers of imperiled animals and plants rising at record rates, scientists are warning in a report released today.

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.

Released just in time for the global financial meltdown, this hymn to designer products features Isla Fisher, who demonstrated her comedic talent by stealing Wedding Crashers from both Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson — no small achievement.

June 28, 2012 • European Union leaders meet in Brussels for their latest summit aimed at saving the eurozone from financial meltdown.

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.

After NADA lobbying, dealers won exemption from increased government regulation called for in the Dodd - Frank Financial Reform Act passed after the financial meltdownFinancial Reform Act passed after the financial meltdownfinancial meltdown of 2008.

With the worst of the financial meltdown supposedly past us and buyers cautiously examining luxury cars again, we're looking for the future of living large.

Toyota apparently learned the same lesson other automakers learned in the aftermath of the 2008 financial meltdown: Nobody wants to be penalized for driving a small car.

Such a transformation is a major undertaking and a major success for a car company affected more than most by the Eurozone's financial meltdown.

The ratings agencies received a lot of blame for the collapse, which eventually led to the financial market meltdown during the bear market of 2007 - 2009.

Before the financial meltdown of 2007 and 2008, it was easy for many businesses that relied on their credit lines — and repaid them regularly and on time — to renew or extend those credit lines.

For example during the financial meltdown look at the value investors who were long MBIA, AIG, Fannie, Freddie, etc..