The 2008 Economic Crisis

Economist Qian Liu explores the risk of an economic crisis descending into conflict.

Michael Burry the man that predicted the 2008 economic crisis and the man the movie The Big Short is based on...

by Bimal Ghosh, PRINT ISBN: 9780230303560 E-TEXT ISBN: 9781137291301

Tracing the roots of the present economic crisis can be controversial. Any results of such an effort will surely be disputed by one party or another. However, there are some basic issues that all agree are at the heart of the collapse which became manifest in 2008. The world is still enduring these effects and…

Author: Mark Fisher | Publisher: Zero Books | Publication Date: December 16, 2009 | Number of Pages: 81 pages | Language: English | Binding: Paperback | ISBN-10: 1846943175 | ISBN-13: 9781846943171

Facing the Crisis : Ethnographies of Work in Italian Industrial Capitalism | Author: Fulvia D�Aloisio, Simone Ghezzi | Publisher: Berghahn Books | Publication Date: Sep 20, 2020 | Number of Pages: 222 pages | Language: English | Binding: Hardcover | ISBN-10: 1789207800 | ISBN-13: 9781789207804

Finance chiefs say they are less optimistic now than they were following the collapse of Lehman Brothers at the height of the biggest financial crash in living memory.

The truth about the 2008 economic crisis from a Washington insider The 1980s opened with the prime interest rate at an astonishing 21.5 percent, leading to a severe recession with unemployment reaching nearly 11 percent. Depression-like conditions befell the country, the entire thrift industry was badly insolvent and the major money center banks were loaded with third world debt. Some 3,000 bank and thrifts failed, including nine of Texas’ ten largest, and Continental Illinois, which, at the…

Today on Crash Course Economics, Adriene and Jacob talk about the 2008 financial crisis and the US Goverment's response to the troubles. So, all this starts ...

There were three causes of the 2008 financial crisis: deregulation, securitization, and the Fed's poor timing in lowering and raising interest rates.