Tom Spencer
NOVEMBER 17, 2018
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.
Tom Spencer
OCTOBER 16, 2021
Knowing the ins and outs of upcoming trends in finance is indispensable for any aspiring consultant. A prime example for such a question is how finance is adapting to the issue of climate change, and might assist its mitigation. Green Finance. Resilience Bonds. Final thoughts.
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Tom Spencer
JULY 25, 2020
I have written multiple financial crises articles in the past but have yet to touch on my home turf, New Zealand. On the second point, the stability of house prices in New Zealand prevented panic selling of assets that could have led the financial system into turmoil. Reading Time: 5 minutes. The HPI (Housing Price Index) is already 2.4%
Tom Spencer
AUGUST 25, 2018
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?
Steve Shu Consulting
APRIL 19, 2018
” Broad conscious, concerted efforts to apply behavioral economics probably did not begin until sometime after 2008 with the release of Thaler and Sunstein’s book, Nudge. Back in 2010, I was part of a team that started one of the early behavioral finance centers with one of the investment manufacturing firms in the United States.
MishTalk
FEBRUARY 21, 2014
Today the Fed released minutes of meetings at the start and during the great financial crisis. Here is a list of FOMC Transcripts and Other Historical Materials, 2008 Notes I purposely cherry picked statements of various Fed governors. percentage point to GDP growth in 2008 and 0.3 percentage point to GDP growth in 2008 and 0.3
Tom Spencer
MARCH 17, 2023
This idea has been echoed by some of the most influential figures in the business and finance world, including Professor Michael Porter, Michael Lewis, and Warren Buffett. The actions of these players in the financial industry were driven by their desire to win at all costs, rather than a commitment to ethical behaviour.
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