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2008 Financial Crisis – Causes and historical context

Tom Spencer

Many an economics and finance course later, I see that the layers of complexities to the 2008 financial crisis are innumerable. I’ll try to summarize some of the causes and historical contexts in this article to provide a greater-than-Big-Short level analysis. We were shocked, how could no one have seen the collapse coming?

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Inside a Fortune 500 Boardroom

CaseInterview.com

In contrast, my favorite boardroom belonged to a clothing retail chain in California during the Great Recession of 2008. If you know finance, especially the finance of retail businesses, that’s nearly impossible. The company had suffered a 40% drop in sales. but was still profitable!

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The age old tale of financial crises

Tom Spencer

The story of the 2008 financial crisis begins somewhere shortly after the death of Jesus Christ himself. The 2008 financial crisis saw Ben Bernanke, the then chairman of the Federal Reserve, providing money to banks across the United States following the collapse of the housing market and subsequent defaults of mortgage backed securities.

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Is the Stock Market in Big Trouble?

The Fearless Marketer

Do you remember the stock market crash of 2008? On Monday, September 29, 2008. On Monday, September 15, 2008, Lehman Brothers declared bankruptcy. in October for its biggest monthly drop since October 2008, while a 6.9% Why am I writing this article? The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 777.68 So far, so good.

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Idiotic Proposals for Fed to Give Away Money

MishTalk

A Fiscal Times, Yahoo Finance article by by John Grgurich claims that Instead of QE, Fed Could Have Given $56,000 to Every Household in America. Base Money Supply has gone up from $848 billion at the start of 2008 to $4.150 Trillion today. Third, Grgurich is in severe need of math lessons as to what actually transpired.

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New Zealand’s Financial Crises Resilience

Tom Spencer

I have written multiple financial crises articles in the past but have yet to touch on my home turf, New Zealand. This article will discuss some of the points of resilience from the last GFC and whether those points will persist in today’s rocky economic climate. Reading Time: 5 minutes. The HPI (Housing Price Index) is already 2.4%

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Strong Economy – Strong Buy-Sell Market

Martinka Consulting

70% of medium sized companies will change hands (2008). Notice the same predictions from 2008-2015? We have a few articles in our “writing folder” (articles I’ve saved to write about) on bad management, how technology is replacing people, and employee unhappiness. Their average age of retirement is 67. And guess what?