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2008 Financial Crisis – Causes and historical context

Tom Spencer

My friends and I walked out of the Big Short several years ago feeling like a group of global financial crisis experts. Many an economics and finance course later, I see that the layers of complexities to the 2008 financial crisis are innumerable. MBS are financial assets with a claim on a pool of mortgages.

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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. Not 33 years after Christ’s passing did Emperor Tiberius of the Roman Empire have to rescue his constituents’ financial sanctity through the age-old process of quantitative easing. Will humanity ever learn its lesson?

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Fed Balance Sheet vs. Stock Market; Will QE Cause Inflation?

MishTalk

China Financial Markets. Financial Sense. Fed Balance Sheet vs. Stock Market; Will QE Cause Inflation? Fed Balance Sheet vs. Stock Market. The risk premiums of risky securities have become unsustainably compressed in the process, and the Feds balance sheet has metastasized to $3.5 Daily Bell.

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Millennials Mired in "Wealth Gap" as Older Americans Gain; Housing Crash Continues to Overshadow Young Families' Balance Sheets

MishTalk

Thanks to Fed printing presses coupled with an extreme case of irrational exuberance, those over 40 years old have recovered losses from the great financial collapse. The average value of housing on young families’ balance sheets remains about 35 percent below its 2007 level, the St. Meanwhile, 71.3 Louis Fed paper estimates.

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It’s Not “Time Management.” It’s Lean.

Markovitz Consulting

The same is true of employees at Tower Paddle Boards (at least during the summer months) and Collins SBA , a financial advisory firm in Australia. Of course, software firm 37 Signals has been operating four-day work weeks over the summer since 2008. Overtime expense isn’t a major concern when many office workers are on salary.

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Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis: Reader Question: Does the.

MishTalk

China Financial Markets. Financial Sense. Reader Question: Does the Fed Balance Sheet Properly Reflect QE Announcements? The feds balance sheet doesnt reflect it. The balance sheet was up $720 billion from Aug 1, 2012 to Aug 1, 2013 ($309B in treasuries and $393B in MBS) but that is only $60B per month.

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Draghi Announces ECB Exit From Easing Remains Far Off

MishTalk

China Financial Markets. Financial Sense. The Financial Times reports ECB exit from easing remains far off, Draghi says. Bernanke says the US economy is solid enough that the Fed can begin tapering its balance sheet purchases later this year. Top Financial Blog Citations. Burning Platform. Calculated Risk.