In
response to the financial crisis of 1772 — 1773, Amsterdam - based businessman Abraham (or Adriaan) van Ketwich formed a trust named Eendragt Maakt Magt («unity creates strength»).
The remedial
legislative response to the financial crisis in the United States was the Dodd - Frank Act.7 While the Federal Reserve Act did not use the words «financial stability», this was not the case with the Dodd - Frank Act.
In the early stages of this recovery, many corporations sensibly used access to inexpensive debt to term - out existing debt and to raise cash cushions on their balance sheets, an
understandable response to the financial crisis and subsequent recession.
Inaugurated in 1999 as a meeting of finance ministers from developed countries and emerging economies, the G20 has turned into a top - level summit coordinating the
global response to the financial crisis after the collapse of Lehman Brothers in 2008.
The
Obama response to the financial crisis of 2008 with the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act in 2009 with its $ 831 billion stimulus investing in infrastructure, education, health, green technologies and an expansion of unemployment benefits / welfare provisions was ideologically unacceptable for most Republicans.
If you look at something like the economic crisis that came last September, I think the real opportunity for the Labour party is to say that we did not just witness the demise of individual institutions, we ultimately witnessed the demise of an ideology that says that the only role for government is always to get out of the way and that the
right response to a financial crisis is to nudge, privatise and deregulate.
As the reader will recall, Paulson was the last Treasury Secretary in George W. Bush's administration, and was one of the key players in the U.S. government's
initial response to the financial crisis of 2008.
As for the reference to the Economist magazine I quit my subscription long ago as their analyses trended to more and more follow the line of thinking that crafted the spectacularly
unsuccessful responses to the financial crisis that US FIRE sector instigated.
11 Congress granted this authority to the Federal Reserve in the Financial Services Regulatory Relief Act of 2006, with an October 2011 effective date, but accelerated its implementation to October 2008 as part of the
legislative response to the financial crisis.
Blythe Masters, the CEO of Digital Assets Holdings, during his interview with the Wall Street Journal, he said that the rise of digital currencies such as Bitcoin is a «principled»
response to the financial crisis of 2008.
The Fed has begun the process of raising interest rates from post-recession lows and is unwinding its massive asset - buying program —
a response to the financial crisis a decade ago.
The Dodd - Frank bill, which was passed in 2010 in
response to the financial crisis, aimed to decrease various risks across the financial system and increase regulatory oversight to prevent such a meltdown from happening again.
The most sweeping and complex financial reform package since the Great Depression, Dodd - Frank was drafted in
response to the financial crisis — yet few believe it would do much in the way of preventing another such crisis.
For example, in
response to the financial crisis, the Federal Reserve took the unusual step of embarking on a quantitative easing program in which it bought up mortgage - backed securities and government debt in the form of Treasury bonds.
In between, Yellen taught at Berkeley's Haas School of Business, chaired the White House Council of Economic Advisers under President Clinton, and served as president of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco from 2004 to 2010, where she was involved in the Fed's
response to the financial crisis.
The Fed's balance sheet has already expanded to $ 2.9 trillion as a result of its purchases of securities in
response to the financial crisis and the Great Recession.
[9] Cato's former chairman Bill Niskanen found that variation around that trend «had significant effects on asset prices and the real economy, and most of this variation was a consequence of the Fed's
response to financial crises.»
The response to the financial crisis has been to increase the same ineffective regulation and to lend public money to the people who caused the crisis without asking the people who own the money.
Vince Cable, the Liberal Democrat's economics spokesman, won «opposition politician» of the year following a highly adept, but fruitless,
response to the financial crisis.
That criticism is likely to be repeated at the next general election as the Conservatives claim Labour's kneejerk response to economic difficulty is to ramp up public spending - as was
their response to the financial crisis of 2008.
Let's be honest, Gordon's
response to the financial crisis was incredibly bold and helped keep the economy afloat.
As Irwin Stelzer - no leftist - writes on page 22, he and Mr Brown made the right decisions in
response to the financial crisis.
For example, in
response to the financial crisis, the Federal Reserve took the unusual step of embarking on a quantitative easing program in which it bought up mortgage - backed securities and government debt in the form of Treasury bonds.
This piece of legislation was created in
response to the financial crisis that preceded it.
FAIR Canada continues to be disappointed with the slow pace of investor protection reforms in Canada, particularly when compared with timely, comprehensive reform in other jurisdictions, and the lack of investor protection initiatives taken in
response to the financial crisis.
We note that, in
response to the financial crisis, the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission announced a package of investor protection reforms in May 2010.
The six featured paintings from the nine in the so - called «Doric» series, which Scully began in 2008, are partly
a response to the financial crisis that has spread throughout the Western world and is particularly acute in Greece.
«The Major Economies Forum began with a firm commitment to contribute positively to a Copenhagen agreement and, in
response to the financial crisis, many national stimulus packages have been launched that include green economic objectives.
And, no doubt, many Americans are seeking out some form of (in) voluntary simplicity in
response to the financial crisis.
Created as part of the Dodd - Frank Act, the industry's
response to the financial crisis, Ventrone noted that Dodd - Frank may have been «a little too much, too fast.»
In addition, the administration of Donald Trump could take a fresh look at existing regulations across the board, and that could result in new rulemaking to change provisions that are hurting real estate, including provisions in the Dodd - Frank financial services reform law enacted in 2010 in
response to the financial crisis.
Take, for example, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's ability - to - repay rule, which emerged in
response to the financial crisis.