Sentences with phrase «general financial collapse»

Morgan successfully led the American financial community's attempt to avert a general financial collapse following the stock market panic of 1907.

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The stock value lost by GE in the past 12 months is twice the amount that vanished when Enron Corp. collapsed in 2001 — and more than the combined market capitalization erased by the bankruptcies of Lehman Brothers and General Motors during the financial crisis.

It was a moment unimaginable in the governor's first term, or in his four years prior as state attorney general, when he forged a reputation as a cutting - edge social liberal and a cast - iron fiscal conservative, a triangulating centrist contemptuous of public sector unions and of the anti-Wall Street outrage that erupted after the 2008 financial collapse.

State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has gained considerable attention — and praise from liberal groups — for his investigations of the actions of major banks in the run - up to the foreclosure crisis and financial collapse of 2008.

If Wall Street executives had any concerns about the governor before — as a vestige, perhaps, of the rather more adversarial pose he struck following the financial collapse, which took place when he was attorney general — they seem to have disappeared with de Blasio's election, and the mayor's immediate push for a tax hike and limits on the proliferation of charter schools.

Perhaps part of the explanation of the market's vagaries may be attributed to the general collapse of the dot.com sector of the financial markets that may have curbed the enthusiasm of some «new» buyers.

There is talk that big companies like General Motors are on the verge of financial collapse.