Sentences with phrase «financial meltdown in»

The financial meltdown in 2008 made a lot of small time investors furious about being misled, and they demanded some accountability.

Pottery workshops by Chicago artist Theaster Gates, a sanitorium for stressed urbanites by Mexican artist Pedro Reyes, a hypnotist's view of financial meltdown in a film by Danish collective Superflex, and Turkish collective Ha Za Vu Zu invite us to make a racket in alternative futures imagined by 10 artists and collectives.Whitechapel Gallery, London E1 (whitechapelgallery.org), 4 July to 5 September.

Supporters of ART ASIA's inaugural fair reported great satisfaction with attendance: Sundaram Tagore, executive director of SUNDARAM TAGORE GALLERY shared, «Due to the financial meltdown in the US, our expectations were extremely low.

The table to the left shows the performance of each sector during and after the tech bubble burst in 2000 and the financial meltdown in 2008.

The financial meltdown in 2008 drove investors to the dollar as the global safe haven, but in early 2009 that status faded as fears of financial collapse melted.

Prior to the financial meltdown in 2008, KSP was generating distributable cash flow of at least $.77 unit per quarter.

Interest rates in these countries are at least 4 % higher than in the U.S. or Europe and the credit quality of most of these countries is investment grade, plus the holdings of the larger ETFs are so widely distributed that unless one had a major financial crisis, similar to the Asian crisis in 1995 or the financial meltdown in 2008, one's investment should weather most isolated storms.

The deeper, longer recession after the financial meltdown in 2007 - 9 appears related to even lower teacher attrition rates.

I think the practice of calming the mind is appealing to anyone, and after the financial meltdown in our culture, I've seen a large increase in the slower practices that entail more focus on breathing and calming.

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

«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.

The New York City native was at the March of Washington, helped New York City stave off a financial meltdown in the 1970's, represented the owners in the 1994 Major League Baseball strike that led to the only canceled Word Series and was named Lieutenant Governor by David Paterson in 2009 in one of the the most tumultuous times in state history.

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.

So - called «zombie» properties — vacant residences that have fallen into foreclosure limbo and the owners have essentially abandoned — have increased in the wake of the mortgage crisis and subsequent financial meltdown in the last decade.

The recent UK growth statistics underline the catastrophic damage and continuing aftershocks inflicted by the financial meltdown in 2008 - 9, exacerbated by the never - ending crisis in the eurozone.

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»

Instead of using it to reduce the federal public debt, the government used it to cut the GST by two percentage points, thereby creating a structural deficit in advance of the financial meltdown in 2008.

BBC Does It Again: «In The Absence Of A Credible Plan We Will Have A Global Financial Meltdown In Two To Three Weeks» - IMF Advisor

Starting in the 1990s, many major banks hired Chief Risk Officers (CROs) in a response to new laws and regulations put in place following financial meltdowns in the 1980s.

As we witness one of the most significant global financial meltdowns in modern times, the acid test is — what level of priority will Indigenous affairs be given by the new government?

As the list of financial meltdowns in Corporate America continues to grow, Thomas Wratten thinks the timing is perfect for the commercial real estate industry's first - ever certification program for debt and equity...

As the list of financial meltdowns in Corporate America continues to grow, Thomas Wratten thinks the timing is perfect for the commercial real estate industry's first - ever certification program for debt and equity investors.

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That would prevent a default that would clog the global river of credit — much like the collapse of Lehman Brothers in 2008 — sparking another financial markets 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.

But the downturn in the 1980s was caused by the sudden and massive increase in interest rates by the Paul Volcker - led Federal Reserve, not a meltdown of the global financial system.

«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.

«If they can not address [the financial crisis] in a credible way I believe within perhaps 2 to 3 weeks we will have a meltdown in sovereign debt which will produce a meltdown across the European banking system.

After all, the lack of a Canadian national regulator didn't seem to be a significant obstacle in managing the financial crisis of 2008 - 9, and the presence of a national regulator wasn't enough to prevent the U.S. financial meltdown.

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.

It came after the country's financial meltdown, which put bankers in jail and prompted a $ 4.6 billion bailout, and on the cusp of political events that would add to the populist spirit that fueled the party's meteoric rise.

Then in 2008, we hit the wall of the financial meltdown.

With U.S. hiring expected to bounce back in June and no financial meltdown from the Brexit vote currently seen, economists in the Reuters poll now expect the Fed to tighten monetary policy in July or September.

In other words, GM will always be ahead, and the company — barring another massive financial meltdown — will never stop putting the Bolt up against the Model 3.

In fact, CalPERS, which has nearly $ 295 billion under management, is one of those funds that has already cut its target since the financial meltdown of 2008.

Dodd - Frank, which Frank crafted alongside Sen. Christopher Dodd, D - Conn., boosted government oversight of banks in a bid to reduce risk and prevent another financial meltdown like the one in 2008.

In an interview with IMF advisor Robert Shapiro, the bailout expert has pretty much said what, once again, is on everyone's mind: «If they can not address [the financial crisis] in a credible way I believe within perhaps 2 to 3 weeks we will have a meltdown in sovereign debt which will produce a meltdown across the European banking systeIn an interview with IMF advisor Robert Shapiro, the bailout expert has pretty much said what, once again, is on everyone's mind: «If they can not address [the financial crisis] in a credible way I believe within perhaps 2 to 3 weeks we will have a meltdown in sovereign debt which will produce a meltdown across the European banking systein a credible way I believe within perhaps 2 to 3 weeks we will have a meltdown in sovereign debt which will produce a meltdown across the European banking systein sovereign debt which will produce a meltdown across the European banking system.

Any financial geek will be proud to own these key items such as golf club covers with the Enron logo stamped on them in remembrance of one of the biggest corporate meltdowns in recent history.

«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.

Watching the turmoil in financial markets this past week, the question is no longer whether there will be a meltdown, but how much melting is left to go.

The Dodd - Frank bill, which was passed in 2010 in response to the financial crisis, aimed to decrease various risks across the financial system and increase regulatory oversight to prevent such a meltdown from happening again.

The massive and multifaceted policy responses to the financial crisis and Great Recession — ranging from traditional fiscal stimulus to tools that policymakers invented on the fly — dramatically reduced the severity and length of the meltdown that began in 2008; its effects on jobs, unemployment, and budget deficits; and its lasting impact on today's economy.

In the 1990s he fought efforts to regulate derivatives — that once - opaque corner of the financial market where mortgage - backed securities and credit default swaps, at the centre of the financial meltdown of 2008, were flourishing.

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.

As the global financial meltdown spreads to threaten General Motors and even the Euro, financial experts in well - tailored suits vie in the news media to frame how we arrived here and what should be done.

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.

This recipe doesn't always guarantee success, but should another financial meltdown occur, such companies will be in a much better position, financially, to weather the storm.

That post also entitles Mnuchin to Chair the Financial Stability Oversight Council, a body that frequently meets in secret to deliberate if the U.S. could be looking at another 2008 - style meltdown.

One of the most compelling sequences in the Oscar - winning Inside Job, Charles Ferguson's indictment of Wall Street's role in the 2008 global financial meltdown, involved not the banker culprits but their supporting cast.

Rajan shows how the individual choices that collectively brought about the economic meltdown — made by bankers, government officials, and ordinary homeowners — were rational responses to a flawed global financial order in which the incentives to take on risk are incredibly out of step with the dangers those risks pose.