Financial crisis of 2007–2010

“varying rules and standards led to certain entities not being regulated at all, with others subject to less oversight than their peer financial firms organized under different charters” (Morrison & Foerster, 2010, p. 6). After the financial crisis, analysts pointed to the “many regulatory failures” and gaps in oversight as the reason unethical and illegal practices were overlooked or ignored (Madrick, 2010, para. 3). As a result, the provisions set out by Dodd-Frank included several changes in government oversight, including the creation of new agencies, with the goal of enforcing consistent standards of ethical behavior within the financial…

Introduction When banks and large corporations have huge pending bills that they are unable to settle, they can turn to the government for a financial bailout. According to Casey and Posner (2015), a bailout is a transfer of resources, including money from the government to a private agent or even to an allied government. Government bailouts are aimed at preventing the potential collapsing of the economy by insuring the corporations against collapse. Notably, there was a substantial bailout in…

The subprime mortgage crisis was the closest the United States had come to economic instability. The subprime mortgage crisis was a four-year long period in which the home prices and ownership plummeted. The crisis started out in the 1990s, when the United States government wanted to help increase homeownership by the deregulation of policies. To tackle the issue of “affordable housing” the Department of Housing and Urban Development helped ease regulation to private companies and banks when…

One of the reasons conflicts have not ended is culture. More interactions between different civilizations are intensifying the awareness of differences between cultures. Because civilizations do not understand differences between theirs and others, conflict arises. In some conflicted areas of the world, liberalism has failed and new authoritarian powers have appeared. The cause of the 2008 economic crisis was borrowers not being able to keep up with their ballooning mortgage payment. As a…

I will be discussing the bailout that occurred during the Great Recession of 2008. I will also examine the advantages and disadvantages of the bail out. Lastly, I will be analyzing and hypothesizing the bailout of 2008 and how it will and has affected my generation, and those to come after. In December of 2007 the great recession started, and it lasted until June of 2009; this had been the largest recession since World War II (WWII) (Adams, 2016). During the Great Recession, the resulting loss…

The year 2008 was hallmarked by a main financial-crisis particularly in United States. The recession witnessed therefrom was the highest since the 2nd world war. This had consequential effect since this financial crisis in U.S spread to other countries which led to detrimental impact to other countries economic system. A detailed analysis showcase that the financial crisis actually commenced in the year 2006, particularly, when the subprime-market for mortgage in United States commenced to…

In Sanders book he states that academics have identified a number of factors that set the stage of the mortgage market “Financial innovation in the form of asset securitization… Imprudent business and risk management decisions based on the expectation of continued housing price appreciation Faulty assumptions in the model used by credit rating agencies… Gaps and weaknesses in regulatory oversight… Government policies to increase home ownership … lending to higher-risk borrowers… economic…

the book which juxtaposes the American’s stimulus and British’s austerity policy in housing programs. The US avoid increase rate of mental health problems and infectious disease which correlate with homelessness with effective housing programs, while UK suffers 8% rise of Tuberculosis outbreak after cutting housing budgets. However, the discussions in this final part are limited on resilience at the country level and less exposure on the social factors in the community which is significant for…

Some economists begin to worried about the future; will the Chinese market has a sudden decrease or even a hard landing? (Walker, 2015, para.2). Would the U.S. economic system reform in a healthy and correct way? There is no right answer to those questions, which should only be able to answer by time. According to the historical references and the current economic growth trends, it is reasonable for people to worried about both countries’ future. Since these two big markets can easily cause a…

The economy went into a doomed era in 2008. Gigantic banks on Wall Street, which people often referred them as the heart of economy fell. The fraud emerged years later, when the banks were selling the synthetic CDOs. This became a chain reaction that links one another and put the world into deep recession. Too Big to Fail and The Big Short contributed to the ongoing narration of the 2008 financial crisis in a cinematic format, which also journalism, television, advertising and public relations…