Sentences with phrase «shocking financial collapse»

The only shortcoming is that Ludvigsen's narrative concludes just before Porsche's shocking financial collapse and takeover by Volkswagen this past summer.

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It has been five years since the collapse of investment bank Lehman Brothers Holdings, a shock point in an era that saw the takeover or shutdown of many household - name financial institutions and the meltdown of the stock and housing markets.

In fact, world wars and the accumulated budgetary and political shocks of the interwar period saw low savings rates, collapses in foreign capital and financial chaos.

Trade and financial shocks in the form of collapsing commodity prices and reduced availability of external financing have worsened Latin America's economic prospects in the past year, according to an issue brief from Rice University's Baker Institute for Public Policy.

Yet U.S. reporters and economists still write as though the Great Recession had nothing to do with a global energy shock but was instead a «financial crisis» that began with the collapse of an investment bank (Lehman Brothers) on September 15, 2008.

Partners remain bullish that their firms can withstand financial shocks or the impact of mass partner departures despite the aftermath of Halliwells» recent collapse, according to new research.

It's no secret that the financial collapse sent shock waves across the housing sector and ushered in a new wave of regulation.