Tom Spencer
NOVEMBER 17, 2018
Many an economics and finance course later, I see that the layers of complexities to the 2008 financial crisis are innumerable. MBS were being used as collateral for interbank trading, thus essentially underpinning the entirety of the financial system in the US. We were shocked, how could no one have seen the collapse coming?
Markovitz Consulting
NOVEMBER 19, 2019
Of course, software firm 37 Signals has been operating four-day work weeks over the summer since 2008. Unfortunately, companies in the lean community don’t seem to take much note of, or try to copy these experiments, probably because the benefits aren’t reflected on the income statement or balance sheet.
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Tom Spencer
AUGUST 25, 2018
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.
MishTalk
OCTOBER 26, 2013
Inquiring minds are monitoring the Fed''s Balance Sheet. One more week like this and the FED balance sheet will be $1 trillion more than last year at this time. It’s designed to help policy makers -- buying $85 billion of bonds a month -- siphon off excess cash in the banking system when they begin to tighten policy.
Consultant Ninja
MARCH 31, 2009
Heres my understanding of the current TARP/TARPII/PPIP/etc plans: The major "sick" banks wont lend to businesses, because their balance sheets are tied up with bad assets that they cant sell. Should this happen we would suffer major systemic failure, potential hyper-inflation, and illiquid capital markets. at 7:39 PM.
MishTalk
DECEMBER 18, 2013
It is the highest such volume since the $122.4bn seen in 2008 according to Dealogic, the data provider. Details show the alleged rainy-day fund is a pathetic €12.5bn of joint funds not available until 2020, even though 128 banks covered in the agreement have an aggregate balance sheet somewhere between €26 trillion and €27 trillion.
MishTalk
JUNE 27, 2013
There is liquidity in the system and the PBoC still has the tools needed to alleviate a short-term liquidity crunch before it leads to a banking crisis. Probably the main lesson of last week is that systems in which. These kinds of systems, however, are not less volatile. Large shocks tend to result in increases in.
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