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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. Mortgage originators often lent the entire purchase price of a house without asking for documentation to verify the borrower’s income, assets, and employment status. It all seemed so clear.

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Hilarious Transcripts of Fed Minutes from 2008 Reveal Completely Clueless Fed

MishTalk

Here is a list of FOMC Transcripts and Other Historical Materials, 2008 Notes I purposely cherry picked statements of various Fed governors. Amazingly, Bernanke spoke of pent-up demand for housing in January of 2008 The January 29-30 transcript was a whopping 194 pages long. percentage point to GDP growth in 2008 and 0.3

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Consultant Ninja: Who Knew SEC accepted Decks for filings.

Consultant Ninja

Thursday, November 6, 2008. What do you think is saddest about this Yahoo Filing with the SEC from June 2008 : That its a word document translated into bullet point format in the worst possible way That it argues "Microsofts offer for $31 per share. Thursday, November 6, 2008. Who Knew SEC accepted Decks for filings?

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Creating a Risk Register: All You Need to Know

Epicflow

What kind of document is it, and how to compile one? A risk register (or a risk log) is a document that presents detailed information about potential project risks, their priority, impact, responses to them, and risk owners [1]. Paper presented at PMI® Global Congress 2008—Asia Pacific, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

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Research: How the Financial Crisis Drastically Increased Wealth Inequality in the U.S.

Harvard Business

Researchers have made major inroads into documenting trends in either income or wealth inequality in the United States, but we still know little about how the two evolve together — an important question to understand the causes of wealth inequality. We live in unequal times. Then the financial crisis happened.

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Hypocrites and Bullies Speak on "The Importance of Trust"

MishTalk

Mike Rogers, told he “absolutely” thinks that one of the countries will give Snowden travel documents. December 2008 (85). November 2008 (78). October 2008 (108). September 2008 (140). August 2008 (93). July 2008 (104). June 2008 (97). May 2008 (73). April 2008 (78).

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Consultant Ninja: Reasons not to stay in Consulting: Management.

Consultant Ninja

Turns out the guy on reception was a new recruit and was a bit phased as our partner is specifically mentioned as a top customer in their documented procedures. May 28, 2009 at 5:43 AM. Post a Comment. Newer Post. Older Post. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Tuesday, March 17, 2009. I am a strategy consultant at.