Sentences with phrase «financial system collapsed»

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.

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 you go back 500 years, whenever a country's financial system collapses, it takes between 5 and 10 years to get back to full employment.

It's 2007 before the de facto financial system collapse on steroids.

If the global financial system collapses, if the Canadian dollar becomes worthless, or if the Harper government confiscates your land then, sure, you can exchange the bullion in your safety deposit box for canned beans and ammunition.

Not exact matches

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

The Basel Committee is still figuring out how to determine which domestic banks in any given country are systemically important — meaning if a bank were to collapse, could it severely destabilize the country's financial system?

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 Federal Reserve is targeting stock prices with it's monetary policy because, if it did not, the financial system would collapse led by collapsing pension funds and the housing market.

Unfortunately, the next financial catastrophe that is going hit the system, and for which the Fed is helpless to prevent, will make everyone yearn for just the tech bubble or «big short» bubble collapses.

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

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.

The real estate bubble, already letting out air for three years, collapsed so suddenly that the world's financial system nearly went down with it.

Europe's problem countries are in trouble because the financial crisis under way since 2008 has damaged their financial systems and led to a collapse in growth.

«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.

No matter what happens in the financial system — whether it collapses under its own weight, or cryptofinance technology revolutionizes how we do business — gold ensures that you're protected.

Stock markets have been falling for months, led by a collapse in confidence in the financial system and plunging bank stocks.

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.

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

Well... we started two wars, our financial system nearly collapsed, and everybody was broke for awhile because Hillary Clinton was too tired to have sex with Bill.

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 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.

Our economic and financial system was as close to collapse as it has ever been.

We had two young kids, my husband lost his job, our house value was collapsing, and it looked like the financial system was going to come undone.

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.