Sentences with phrase «international banking collapse»

The worst financial crisis in a century, an international banking collapse and global recession: it is enough to make a publisher cry all the way to the bank.

Adapted from Michael Lewis's bestselling book The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine, Adam McKay's stylized comedic take on the international banking collapse of 2007 - 08 nerds up Steve Carell, Ryan Gosling, Brad Pitt and an Oscar - baiting Christian Bale as real - life money - managing eccentrics who, independently, come to realize a market based on subprime loans is going to tank.

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When I headed an international investigative economic team in 2010, we visited Latvia's bank insurance agency and were told that they had anticipated a collapse of the bubble.

The collapse of the banking system in Argentina came very close to triggering a financial crisis in London, the major international financial center.

Analysts have not failed to see that Mr. Ofori - Atta is using GCB to acquire the two collapsed banks in order to protect cronies, including Pastor Mensah Otabil, who is the owner of the International Central Gospel Church (ICGC).

It knows the banks and financial sector is to blame and that Gordon Brown, for all his many, many faults, was not singlehandedly responsible for an international financial collapse.

Something similar happened in Ireland, where Peter Sutherland, attorney general in the 1980s and former EU competition commissioner, became non-executive chairman of Goldman Sachs International and a non-executive director of Royal Bank of Scotland, until, you know, it collapsed, and we had to share the pain — but not, it goes without saying, his salary.

Their arrests would lead to the collapse of the Bank of Credit and Commerce International, and shake the underground economy to its core.

THE TRILLION DOLLAR MELTDOWN by Charles R. Morris ($ 24.95, PublicAffairs Books): Readers of the business pages know about the U.S. real estate collapse and the huge losses suffered by international banks, but most Canadians have yet to feel the impact.

Having once been attached to the UK Serious Fraud Office in helping to investigate the collapse of the Bank of Credit and Commerce International, she is set to become its new Director.