Sentences with phrase «of the financial crisis made»

This upbeat analysis of the financial crisis made matters slightly clearer to me — but only slightly.

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Geithner, who served under President Barack Obama as secretary of the treasury as the U.S. struggled to rebound from the global financial crisis, said the current political climate could lead to a «diminished capacity to make sensible economic choices.»

In the wake of the sovereign debt crisis, Europe began implementing measures to make its financial system stronger.

Secondly, he noted «the root causes of the global crisis have not been prop ¬ erly tackled» with the financial system remaining «the Achilles heel of the world economy» and thirdly, «little progress is being made in reducing working poverty and vulnerable forms of employment such as informal jobs and undeclared work.»

After making several appearances on network TV and authoring columns on the financial crisis for Slate, the disgraced politician was recently tapped by CNN as co-host of a nightly news and discussion program alongside journalist Kathleen Parker.

That was John Paulson, who made a name for himself by betting against sub-prime mortgages ahead of the financial crisis.

GIC, one of the first sovereign funds to invest in Western banks during the global financial crisis, retains the other major investment made at the time, a stake in Citigroup which is profitable at current prices.

At the same time, Burry, who made a fortune in last decade's financial crisis by betting that the housing bubble would burst, is also gaining a following north of Hollywood, as a Silicon Valley tech investor.

Five years ago, she was poached from Goldman Sachs — where she made her name convincing a number of large pension funds to hedge in the run up to the financial crisis — by Bank of America to run a first of its kind on Wall Street cross-asset, cross-industry structured - strategies group («It's about solutions, not products,» she says).

But in 2008, in the midst of the financial crisis, we started noticing that young people were doing some awfully significant things, whether in the financial world (Meredith Whitney had just made her bold call against Citigroup), in the tech world (Facebook was beginning to crank into high gear), or in other industries (Kevin Plank's apparel upstart Under Armour was giving Nike a real run for its money).

Frenkel criticised the ineffectiveness of governments since the financial crisis of 2008 which forced central banks to take their place in the «front line» of policy making, he said at an event in London on Tuesday.

Contrary to expectations that Beijing would finally embrace painful restructuring and financial deleveraging to reduce the risks of a financial crisis and make growth sustainable, Li proclaimed that China would achieve GDP growth of between 6.5 % and 7 % for 2016, similar to the 6.9 % GDP growth the Chinese government reported in 2015.

However, Poloz hasn't appeared overly fearful of triggering a financial crisis, arguing that lower interest rates will help to avoid one by making it easier for homeowners to keep up with their mortgage payments.

According to research by Pascual Restrepo of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), the 2007 - 08 financial crisis made things worse: between 2007 and 2015 job openings for unskilled routine work suffered a 55 % decline relative to other jobs.

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.

Although the financial crisis in the fall of 2008 nearly sank Morgan Stanley, it also made possible its metamorphosis into a wealth - management powerhouse.

Brokers and dealers made millions — worth decades of real work by real people — en route to the current financial crisis.

You can see evidence of these scars in many clients» allocation of their financial assets; before we even begin to discuss asset allocation from an investment standpoint, we focus on making sure clients have sufficient liquidity to make it through another crisis.

Some of the Bank of Canada's financial system activities are also designed, in part, to make the system less prone to crisis.

Most investors, including myself, buy physical gold not to make a profit, but to hedge against inflation, stock market crashes, currency devaluation, and all other sorts of financial crises.

Empirical research shows that a buildup of household debt in the economy makes a financial crisis more probable, so we wanted to understand the costs and benefits of leaning against financial imbalances through tighter monetary policy.

The bureau's rules have made it less attractive — though not illegal — for mortgage lenders to make some types of risky loans that went bad and sparked last decade's financial crisis.

If the U.S. does not make significant structural changes including entitlement reform, budgetary reform and a simpler tax system, he foresees another financial crisis of possibly greater magnitude in the years ahead.

«Puerto Rico survived the Hurricanes, now a financial crisis looms largely of their own making.»

Things look equally bleak based on metrics typically used by investors to evaluate a borrower's ability to make payments: In Asia and Latin America, companies» debt now represents roughly four years of operating profits, up from fewer than two years prior to the financial crisis of 2008.

The decision means a previously obscure grouping of senior officials - the Financial Institutions Supervisory Committee - will be thrust into the spotlight as Canada's answer to the pledge the federal government and its allies in the Group of 20 made to correct regulatory failings that contributed to the financiaFinancial Institutions Supervisory Committee - will be thrust into the spotlight as Canada's answer to the pledge the federal government and its allies in the Group of 20 made to correct regulatory failings that contributed to the financialfinancial crisis.

Following the financial crisis of 2008, the government passed new laws circumscribing how lenders could be compensated, and public pressure provided an additional incentive for lenders to reign in the practices that had made them rich during the housing boom.

I did not have to wait long as the financial crisis of 2008/09 was just around the corner and after watching my entire portfolio go deep in the red, I remained calm, continued to make buys every month and did not sell one single share.

To move past the financial crisis of the 1990s, Asian economies made a host of important structural changes — and Asian fixed income stands ready is positioned to benefit.

In times of financial crisis, the fact that one firm can prove it is making money by sending you cash in the mail provides it a lot of favor in investors» collective eyes.

A graduate of Thunderbird, Tom's accomplishments include managing a diverse portfolio of investments through the financial crisis, making investments in several global payments companies that led to acquisitions, and building new business units in Mexico City, São Paulo, and Rio de Janeiro.

During the financial crisis, as the bottom fell out of garment maker Gildan Activewear Inc.'s share price, Glenn Chamandy made a bet of about $ 23 - million (U.S.) that the doubters were wrong about his struggling company.

Piggyback loans went out of fashion during the financial crisis but they've since made a comeback.

They also know that is in those wildest moments - the rare but recurring crisis of the financial world - where the biggest fortunes of Wall Street are made and lost.

A couple of weeks ago I posted some information about the «Great Depression of 1873 - 1896 ″ to make the point that there was no depression, great or otherwise, during this period, but that the period did contain some financial crises / panics.

The Federal Reserve has now reversed two - thirds of the cut in interest rates made last year in the wake of the Russian financial crisis.

Despite the fact that all the central banks have been woefully wrong about nearly every single forecast they have made on GDP growth, inflation and labor markets for decades, they enjoy an aura of infallibility which would be the envy of any medieval Pope because they succeeded in doing what governments by themselves were unable to do in 2008 - 9, namely stop and reverse the financial crisis.

«Comments Yellen made at a conference in Jackson Hole were not received well by the incoming administration, when she delivered a defense of the regulations enacted by the Obama administration following the financial crisis.»

making a meaningful allocation to gold to secure your portfolio in the event of a financial crisis

Is the widespread use of cov - lite making the leveraged lending market riskier than before the financial crisis?

Moreover, it is now doubtful whether the efficient market hypothesis makes any kind of sense. Indeed, a great many economists and bankers have discovered Minskyâ $ ™ s views on financial fragility and his financial instability hypothesis, according to which banks and financial markets can not be left to themselves: we need regulations even though regulating markets may not succeed in avoiding another crisis once the memory of the current crisis has faded away.As told to me by a law student recently hired by Blackrock, the largest asset manager in the world, with assets totalling more than 3,500 billion dollars â $ «thatâ $ ™ s one and a half times larger than UBS and twice as large as PIMCO â $ «many asset managers are now turning away from hiring neoclassical economists and actually prefer hiring engineers, sociologists and even philosophers.

Experts in the industry have also noted that revenue growth was hindered in the early part of the period as the industry was reluctant to bounce back from the financial crisis and subsequent recession of the prior period that made stock markets and business activities to dramatically contract.

In the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, C has been struggling to redefine itself in a way that makes sense to investors.

The Volcker rule, finalized three years after the Dodd - Frank financial reform law passed in the wake of the 2007 - 2009 financial crisis, restricts U.S. banks from making certain kinds of speculative transactions on their own account and from investing in hedge funds.

The 2009 best of the Hot List features articles about ahy being bullish after the financial crisis was an easy call to make for long - term investors, despite the fear in the market, the importance of the philosophy - «don't fight the Fed», and why investors should ignore those who predict the death of equities.

It occurs to me that, despite the unprecedented flood of writings of all sorts — books, blog - posts, newspaper op - eds, and academic journal articles — addressing just about every monetary policy development during and since the 2008 financial crisis, relatively few attempts have been made to step back...

Though last year's contribution — made from revenue on its portfolio of bond holdings — declined from 2016, it was well above the average in years before the financial crisis.

The combination of the 2007 - 09 financial crisis, the 2011 European debt crisis and a rising dollar have made for a terrible time for investors with a global portfolio in the past decade.

There are risks to all this, of course, as the global financial crisis made clear; but when done judiciously, in a well - regulated financial system, we believe such market - based credit solutions can help encourage growth and stability.

In 2000, no one could have predicted the combination of Iraq War mismanagement and financial crisis that made Obamacare possible.