By some measures, it was the largest
financial system failure ever experienced by a single nation.
Not exact matches
Now, with the relatively recent string of primary dealer
failures (Countrywide, Bear Stearns, Lehman, Merrill, and now MF Global), a rational observer might think the NY Fed had moved to beef up surveillance activities designed to protect the
financial system from excessive risk taking at primary dealers.
«And even more importantly, a
failure to promptly raise the debt ceiling, leading to a U.S. selective default, could seriously damage the global economy and
financial system.»
Chuck Piola — top seller at NCO
Financial Systems, a $ 3.9 - million collection agency in Blue Bell, Pa. (see «48 Hours with the King of Cold Calls,» June 1991), drew inspiration from the pages of How I Raised Myself from
Failure to Success in Selling.
Tarullo has said he favors the sliding scale version of the surcharge that would rise according to the «expected impact» of a bank's
failure on the
financial system.
The housing bubble in the United States, which triggered the
financial crisis in 2008, had highlighted the danger of using the
financial system to make up for the
failures in social policies.
Under the 2010 Dodd - Frank Act, which toughened
financial regulations in an effort to avoid a repeat of the 2008 crisis, the oversight panel had the power to designate non-bank institutions such as AIG as systemically important
financial institutions, meaning that their
failure could pose a risk to the entire
financial system.
Trust in the custodian is paramount: If you're buying gold as a hedge against a
failure in the
financial system, you must be confident that the custodian would not be impaired if a crisis were to happen.
My second point is one I alluded to but wanted to further underscore: just because a bank is not «systemically connected,» i.e., its
failure does not threaten the larger
financial system, doesn't mean it should be able to engage in excessively risky finance.
Unfortunately, Mr. Krugman's
failure to see today's economic problem as one of debt deflation reflects his
failure (suffered by most economists, to be sure) to recognize the need for debt writedowns, for restructuring the banking and
financial system, and for shifting taxes off labor back onto property, economic rent and asset - price («capital») gains.
Calling out Ripple as a leader in applying blockchain and distributed
financial technology to the basic
failures of the cross-border payments
system, Finextra quotes Marcus Treacher, Global Head of Strategic Accounts at Ripple.
The banks also would be excused from submitting plans called «living wills» that spell out how a bank would sell off assets or be liquidated in the event of
failure so that it wouldn't create chaos in the
financial system.
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.
Ensuring
Failure:
Financial System Stability and Deposit Insurance in Canada, Observation 36, by J.L.VCarr, G.F. Mathewson, and N.C. Quigley.
The country's biggest banks were captured by an international effort to apply levies on
financial institutions whose
failure would cripple domestic
financial systems.
My reading of the episode is that the extraordinary
financial events of September and October 2008 — several large
financial failures, large - scale rescues of major institutions, enough incipient systemic concerns about banking
systems to lead governments to issue guarantees, investor panic on share markets — were all observed in real time by households and businesses right around the world.
You believed — probably correctly — that its
failure would damage the global
financial system.
@myweightinwords: Lack of birth control, lack of education,
failure of birth control, health issues,
financial constraints and lack of support
systems cause abortion.
Lack of birth control, lack of education,
failure of birth control, health issues,
financial constraints and lack of support
systems cause abortion.
«It's already clear the FSA's investigation demonstrates systemic
failures at the heart of the
financial system at the time,» he said.
«The lack of proper accounting records and the
failure to adequately monitor the
financial status of each capital project is a significant weakness in the county's management
system.»
By taxing the transactions that create greater risk of network
failure, the tax, known as a Systemic Risk Tax (SRT), would essentially rewire the
financial system into a more resilient form.
In the event of
financial turmoil affecting the banking
system and
financial markets, additional consolidation of the
financial services industry, or significant
financial service institution
failures, there could be tightening in the credit markets, low liquidity and extreme volatility in fixed income, credit, currency and equity markets.
In recognition of the continuing
financial disparities among school districts and taxpayers along with the legislature's
failure to address the elements of our standard AEF will continue its effort to improve our school finance
system.
«The state's
failure to create an effective
financial oversight
system is obvious, as Louisiana charter -LSB-...] Read More»
As the Defendant publishers and their physical book distribution
systems get smaller and less profitable, competitors like Barnes & Noble teeter on the Borders of
financial failure, and Apple becomes bored with an iBookstore whose marketplace it can not control by illegal means, Amazon's share of the total book trades market only grows, and grows, and grows.
This implies that the
system, procedural and
financial failure; tens of thousands of foreigners.
It is even good to allow
failures of
financial institutions, particularly risky ones at the fringe of the
financial system for the same reason.
It is comfortable to discuss the
failures of the government or school
system in teaching proper
financial etiquette, but at the end of the day the duty of securing your future falls to no one else but yourself.
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.
Never in the recent past has the world seen such a drastic
failure in the
financial system.
Clearly, the Federal Reserve felt that the
failure of Bear Stearns presented systematic risk to the entire
financial system and economy.
The increase in gold premiums in China over spot gold prices in recent months may indicate Chinese investor anxiety over the election of Donald Trump or coincidently growing nervousness within China over the fragility of its
financial system that is being tested with
failures in the shadow banking sector.
More broadly, the crisis in 2008 arose because Bernanke and then - Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson declined to step in to prevent Lehman Brothers» abrupt
failure, which triggered intense fear across the
financial system.
This one event, along with Bear Stearns around the same time, caused a tsunami of unprecedented
failures in banking and other
financial institutions, and led to a massive Federal intervention in the
financial system.
To prevent AIG's
failure from cascading through the global
financial system, the U.S. Federal Reserve and the U.S. Treasury Department executed a $ 182 billion bailout of the insurer.
The example below is similar to the one I presented last year in You Can't Rescue the
Financial System if You Can't Read a Balance Sheet, but makes allowance for the fact that assets continue to be impaired due to policy
failures, and that deposit banks such as Citigroup use more bond financing than investment banks.
There's a significant problem when you are a supremely big and connected
financial institution: your
failure will have an impact on the
financial system as a whole.
The whole show revolves around the notion of
failure and bankruptcy in the
financial system and the way the language of the corporate world is affecting our notion of faith and belief.
Such technological
failures cause
system downtime and give rise to serious
financial costs.
Ultimately, Posner also predicts that the recent
failures of the
financial regulatory
system (beginning with Enron and Worldcom, and continuing through the banking / mortgage crisis) may lead to wholesale reorganization, with the possible abolition of the SEC.
The Canadian Bar Association's British Columbia branch has hit out at the provincial government for its
failure to increase
financial support for the province's legal aid
system in yesterday's budget.
Her previous experience includes regulatory investigations into firms and individuals for misconduct, including: mis - selling; market abuse;
failures in
financial crime
systems and controls; failing to co-operate with the regulator; and complaints handling.
Failure to do so may result in significant
financial penalties, with penalties divided into a four - tier
system and ranging from $ 100 to $ 1,500,000.
Homes without «smart» technology can also benefit from this coverage: complex
systems including geothermal or radiant heating can be specifically insured, transferring the
financial risk of a
system failure to your insurer and protecting your household's cash flow in the event of a breakdown.
The birth of bitcoin dates back to the aftermath of 2008
financial crisis wherein the adoption of digital currencies was necessitated by the
failure of traditional banking
systems in order to protect the interests of investors and depositors.
Japan's
Financial Services Agency (FSA) announced on March 8, 2018, that it came down on the exchanges due to their
failure to provide proper internal control
systems.
Japan's
Financial Services Agency (FSA) announced today, March 8, 2018, that it came down on the exchanges due to their
failure to provide proper internal - control
systems.
Many of the same risk factors associated with a
failure to provide
financial support informally are also associated with entrance into the child support
system.