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Critical U.S. Health Systems Are in Jeopardy. Businesses and Governments Need to Help.

Harvard Business

Safety-net health systems in the United States are facing enormous financial and operational challenges. These anchor systems are critical to their communities because they care for low-income populations and are key players in the local economy.

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How the Financial World Adapts to Climate Change

Tom Spencer

Green finance is any structured financial activity that funds the development of green projects, minimises the environmental impact of ongoing ones, or both. As things currently stand, global finance has not really embraced sustainability-focused financial instruments, but there are a few promising developments worth having a look at.

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Descent of the Global Monetary System

Tom Spencer

When I studied economics at Sydney University in the early 2000s and financial economics at Oxford in the early 2010s, I learned pretty much the same thing about money; very little. Bretton Woods System: 1944 – 1971. The Bretton Woods System created a kind of monetary discipline. Petrodollar System: 1971 – Present.

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William Black on Global Financial Stability

Tom Spencer

WILLIAM Black, former bank regulator and Professor of Economics and Law at the University of Missouri, witnessed first hand how banks took control of the banking system to commit fraud on a colossal scale. Economics banking crisis consulting financial fragility financial regulation financial stability Management Consulting'

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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. 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.

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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. This same tale has repeated time and time again.