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2007–2008 financial crisis

Index 2007–2008 financial crisis

The 2007–2008 financial crisis, or the global financial crisis (GFC), was the most severe worldwide economic crisis since the Great Depression. [1]

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  1. 538 relations: Abacus Federal Savings Bank, ABC News (United States), Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay, Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature Film, Accounting identity, Adjustable-rate mortgage, Affordable housing, AIG bonus payments controversy, Ailsa McKay, Alan Greenspan, Alistair Darling, Alt-A, Ambac, American Action Network, American Civil Liberties Union, American Economic Review, American Enterprise Institute, American Express, American Home Mortgage, American International Group, American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, Ameriquest Mortgage, Andrew Kliman, Andrew Metrick, Andrew Ross Sorkin, Angelo Mozilo, Asset-backed commercial paper, Asset–liability mismatch, Assets under management, Associated Press, Attorney General of California, Austrian school of economics, Bailout, Balance of payments, Bank failure, Bank for International Settlements, Bank holding company, Bank of America, Bank of America Home Loans, Bank of England, Bank run, Banking (Special Provisions) Act 2008, Bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers, Barack Obama, Barclays, Barron's, Basel III, Basingstoke, BBC News, Bear Stearns, ... Expand index (488 more) »

  2. 2007 in economic history
  3. Economic bubbles
  4. Great Recession in the United Kingdom
  5. Great Recession in the United States
  6. Premiership of Gordon Brown
  7. September 2008 events in North America
  8. Systemic risk

Abacus Federal Savings Bank

Abacus Federal Savings Bank is an American bank founded in December 1984 by a group of business leaders from the Chinese American community in New York City.

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ABC News (United States)

ABC News is the news division of the American television network ABC.

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Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay

The Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay is the Academy Award for the best screenplay adapted from previously established material.

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Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature Film

The Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature Film is an award for documentary films.

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Accounting identity

In accounting, finance and economics, an accounting identity is an equality that must be true regardless of the value of its variables, or a statement that by definition (or construction) must be true.

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Adjustable-rate mortgage

A variable-rate mortgage, adjustable-rate mortgage (ARM), or tracker mortgage is a mortgage loan with the interest rate on the note periodically adjusted based on an index which reflects the cost to the lender of borrowing on the credit markets.

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Affordable housing

Affordable housing is housing which is deemed affordable to those with a household income at or below the median as rated by the national government or a local government by a recognized housing affordability index.

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AIG bonus payments controversy

The AIG bonus payments controversy began in March 2009, when it was publicly disclosed that the American International Group (AIG) insurance corporation was going to pay approximately $218 million (~$ in) in bonus payments to employees of its financial services division. 2007–2008 financial crisis and AIG bonus payments controversy are great Recession in the United States.

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Ailsa McKay

Ailsa McKay (7 June 1963 – 5 March 2014) was a Scottish economist, government policy adviser, a leading feminist economist and Professor of Economics at Glasgow Caledonian University.

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Alan Greenspan

Alan Greenspan (born March 6, 1926) is an American economist who served as the 13th chairman of the Federal Reserve from 1987 to 2006.

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Alistair Darling

Alistair Maclean Darling, Baron Darling of Roulanish, (28 November 1953 – 30 November 2023) was a British politician who served as Chancellor of the Exchequer under prime minister Gordon Brown from 2007 to 2010.

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Alt-A

An Alt-A mortgage, short for Alternative A-paper, is a type of U.S. mortgage that, for various reasons, is considered riskier than A-paper, or "prime", and less risky than "subprime," the riskiest category.

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Ambac

The Ambac Financial Group, Inc., generally known as Ambac (originally the American Municipal Bond Assurance Corporation), is an American holding company.

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American Action Network

The American Action Network (AAN) is a nonprofit, conservative issue advocacy group based in Washington, D.C., aligned to the Republican Party.

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American Civil Liberties Union

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is an American nonprofit human rights organization founded in 1920.

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American Economic Review

The American Economic Review is a monthly peer-reviewed academic journal first published by the American Economic Association in 1911.

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American Enterprise Institute

The American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, known simply as the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), is a center-right think tank based in Washington, D.C., that researches government, politics, economics, and social welfare.

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American Express

American Express Company (Amex) is an American bank holding company and multinational financial services corporation that specializes in payment cards.

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American Home Mortgage

American Home Mortgage Investment Corporation was the 10th largest retail mortgage lender in the United States and was structured as a real estate investment trust (REIT).

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American International Group

American International Group, Inc. (AIG) is an American multinational finance and insurance corporation with operations in more than 80 countries and jurisdictions.

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American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009

The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA), nicknamed the Recovery Act, was a stimulus package enacted by the 111th U.S. Congress and signed into law by President Barack Obama in February 2009. 2007–2008 financial crisis and American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 are great Recession in the United States.

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Ameriquest Mortgage

Ameriquest was one of the largest United States sub-prime mortgage lenders until its dissolution in September 2007.

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Andrew Kliman

Andrew Kliman (born 1955) is an American economist and professor of Economics.

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Andrew Metrick

Andrew Metrick is an American economist who is the current Janet L. Yellen Professor of Finance and Management at the Yale School of Management.

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Andrew Ross Sorkin

Andrew Ross Sorkin (born February 19, 1977) is an American journalist and author.

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Angelo Mozilo

Angelo Robert Mozilo (December 16, 1938 – July 16, 2023) was an Italian American mortgage industry banker who was co-founder, chairman of the board, and chief executive officer of mortgage giant Countrywide Financial until July 1, 2008. 2007–2008 financial crisis and Angelo Mozilo are great Recession.

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Asset-backed commercial paper

Asset-backed commercial paper (ABCP) is a form of commercial paper that is collateralized by other financial assets.

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Asset–liability mismatch

In finance, an asset–liability mismatch occurs when the financial terms of an institution's assets and liabilities do not correspond.

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Assets under management

In finance, assets under management (AUM), sometimes called fund under management, measures the total market value of all the financial assets which an individual or financial institution—such as a mutual fund, venture capital firm, or depository institution—or a decentralized network protocol controls, typically on behalf of a client.

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Associated Press

The Associated Press (AP) is an American not-for-profit news agency headquartered in New York City.

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Attorney General of California

The attorney general of California is the state attorney general of the Government of California.

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Austrian school of economics

The Austrian school is a heterodox school of economic thought that advocates strict adherence to methodological individualism, the concept that social phenomena result primarily from the motivations and actions of individuals along with their self interest.

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Bailout

A bailout is the provision of financial help to a corporation or country which otherwise would be on the brink of bankruptcy.

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Balance of payments

In international economics, the balance of payments (also known as balance of international payments and abbreviated BOP or BoP) of a country is the difference between all money flowing into the country in a particular period of time (e.g., a quarter or a year) and the outflow of money to the rest of the world.

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Bank failure

A bank failure occurs when a bank is unable to meet its obligations to its depositors or other creditors because it has become insolvent or too illiquid to meet its liabilities.

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Bank for International Settlements

The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) is an international financial institution which is owned by member central banks.

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Bank holding company

A bank holding company is a company that controls one or more banks, but does not necessarily engage in banking itself.

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Bank of America

The Bank of America Corporation (often abbreviated BofA or BoA) is an American multinational investment bank and financial services holding company headquartered at the Bank of America Corporate Center in Charlotte, North Carolina, with investment banking and auxiliary headquarters in Manhattan.

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Bank of America Home Loans

Bank of America Home Loans is the mortgage unit of Bank of America.

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Bank of England

The Bank of England is the central bank of the United Kingdom and the model on which most modern central banks have been based. 2007–2008 financial crisis and bank of England are economy of the United Kingdom.

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Bank run

A bank run or run on the bank occurs when many clients withdraw their money from a bank, because they believe the bank may fail in the near future. 2007–2008 financial crisis and bank run are financial crises and systemic risk.

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Banking (Special Provisions) Act 2008

The Banking (Special Provisions) Act 2008 (c. 2) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that entered into force on the 21 February 2008 in order to enable the UK government to nationalise high-street banks under emergency circumstances by secondary legislation. 2007–2008 financial crisis and Banking (Special Provisions) Act 2008 are 2008 in economic history and great Recession in the United Kingdom.

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Bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers

The bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers, also known as the Crash of '08 on September 15, 2008, was the climax of the subprime mortgage crisis. 2007–2008 financial crisis and bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers are 2000s in economic history and great Recession.

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Barack Obama

Barack Hussein Obama II (born August 4, 1961) is an American politician who served as the 44th president of the United States from 2009 to 2017.

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Barclays

Barclays plc (occasionally) is a British multinational universal bank, headquartered in London, England.

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Barron's

Barron's (stylized in all caps) is an American weekly magazine/newspaper published by Dow Jones & Company, a division of News Corp, since 1921.

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Basel III

Basel III is the third Basel Accord, a framework that sets international standards for bank capital adequacy, stress testing, and liquidity requirements. 2007–2008 financial crisis and Basel III are great Recession in the United Kingdom and systemic risk.

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Basingstoke

Basingstoke is a town in Hampshire, situated in south-central England across a valley at the source of the River Loddon on the western edge of the North Downs.

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BBC News

BBC News is an operational business division of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) responsible for the gathering and broadcasting of news and current affairs in the UK and around the world.

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Bear Stearns

The Bear Stearns Companies, Inc. was an American investment bank, securities trading, and brokerage firm that failed in 2008 during the 2007–2008 financial crisis and the Great Recession. 2007–2008 financial crisis and Bear Stearns are 2000s in economic history and great Recession.

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Ben Bernanke

Ben Shalom Bernanke (born December 13, 1953) is an American economist who served as the 14th chairman of the Federal Reserve from 2006 to 2014.

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Berkshire Hathaway

Berkshire Hathaway Inc. is an American multinational conglomerate holding company headquartered in Omaha, Nebraska.

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Bernie Madoff

Bernard Lawrence Madoff (April 29, 1938April 14, 2021) was an American financial criminal and financier who was the admitted mastermind of the largest known Ponzi scheme in history, worth an estimated $65 billion. 2007–2008 financial crisis and Bernie Madoff are 2008 in economic history.

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Bloomberg Businessweek

Bloomberg Businessweek, previously known as BusinessWeek (and before that Business Week and The Business Week), is an American monthly business magazine published 12 times a year.

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Bloomberg News

Bloomberg News (originally Bloomberg Business News) is an international news agency headquartered in New York City and a division of Bloomberg L.P. Content produced by Bloomberg News is disseminated through Bloomberg Terminals, Bloomberg Television, Bloomberg Radio, Bloomberg Businessweek, Bloomberg Markets, Bloomberg.com, and Bloomberg's mobile platforms.

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BNP Paribas

BNP Paribas (sometimes referred to as BNPP or BNP) is a multinational universal bank and financial services holding company headquartered in Paris.

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Bond credit rating

In investment, the bond credit rating represents the credit worthiness of corporate or government bonds.

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Bond insurance

Bond insurance, also known as "financial guaranty insurance", is a type of insurance whereby an insurance company guarantees scheduled payments of interest and principal on a bond or other security in the event of a payment default by the issuer of the bond or security.

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Bridge bank

A bridge bank is an institution created by a national regulator or central bank to operate a failed bank until a buyer can be found.

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Brookings Institution

The Brookings Institution, often stylized as Brookings, is an American think tank that conducts research and education in the social sciences, primarily in economics (and tax policy), metropolitan policy, governance, foreign policy, global economy, and economic development.

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Bureau of Labor Statistics

The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) is a unit of the United States Department of Labor.

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Business Insider

Business Insider (stylized in all caps, shortened to BI, known from 2021 to 2023 as Insider) is a New York City–based multinational financial and business news website founded in 2007.

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Business Wire

Business Wire is an American company that disseminates full-text press releases from thousands of companies and organizations worldwide to news media, financial markets, disclosure systems, investors, information web sites, databases, bloggers, social networks and other audiences.

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California

California is a state in the Western United States, lying on the American Pacific Coast.

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Canadian dollar

The Canadian dollar (symbol: $; code: CAD; dollar canadien) is the currency of Canada.

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Capital (economics)

In economics, capital goods or capital are "those durable produced goods that are in turn used as productive inputs for further production" of goods and services.

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Capital account

In macroeconomics and international finance, the capital account, also known as the capital and financial account, records the net flow of investment into an economy.

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Capitalism

Capitalism is an economic system based on the private ownership of the means of production and their operation for profit.

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Cascades in financial networks

Cascades in financial networks are situations in which the failure of one financial institution causes a cascading failure in another member of the financial network. 2007–2008 financial crisis and Cascades in financial networks are financial crises and systemic risk.

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Case–Shiller index

The Standard & Poor's CoreLogic Case–Shiller Home Price Indices are repeat-sales house price indices for the United States.

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Cash out refinancing

Cash out refinancing (in the case of real property) occurs when a loan is taken out on property already owned in an amount above the cost of transaction, payoff of existing liens, and related expenses.

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Cato Institute

The Cato Institute is an American libertarian think tank headquartered in Washington, D.C. It was founded in 1977 by Ed Crane, Murray Rothbard, and Charles Koch, chairman of the board and chief executive officer of Koch Industries.

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CBS News

CBS News is the news division of the American television and radio broadcaster CBS.

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Center for American Progress

The Center for American Progress (CAP) is a public policy research and advocacy organization which presents a liberal viewpoint on economic and social issues.

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Centre for Economic Policy Research

The Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) is an independent, non‐partisan, pan‐European non‐profit organisation.

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Centre for Research on Multinational Corporations

The Centre for Research on Multinational Corporations (SOMO–Stichting Onderzoek Multinationale Ondernemingen), is an independent, non-profit research and network organisation working on social, ecological and economic issues related to sustainable development.

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Chair of the Federal Reserve

The chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System is the head of the Federal Reserve, and is the active executive officer of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.

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Chancellor of the Exchequer

The chancellor of the exchequer, often abbreviated to Chancellor, is a senior minister of the Crown within the Government of the United Kingdom, and head of Treasury.

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Channel 4

Channel 4 is a British free-to-air public broadcast television channel owned and operated by Channel Four Television Corporation.

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Chapter 11, Title 11, United States Code

Chapter 11 of the United States Bankruptcy Code (Title 11 of the United States Code) permits reorganization under the bankruptcy laws of the United States.

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Chapter 7, Title 11, United States Code

Chapter 7 of Title 11 U.S. Code is the bankruptcy code that governs the process of liquidation under the bankruptcy laws of the U.S. In contrast to bankruptcy under Chapter 11 and Chapter 13, which govern the process of reorganization of a debtor, Chapter 7 bankruptcy is the most common form of bankruptcy in the U.S.

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Charles Ferguson (filmmaker)

Charles Henry Ferguson (born March 24, 1955) is an angel investor and strategic advisor to early stage technology startups and venture capital firms, especially in artificial intelligence.

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Charlie Bean (economist)

Sir Charles Richard Bean (born 16 September 1953) is a British economist and Professor of Economics at the London School of Economics.

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Chicago plan

The Chicago plan was a monetary and banking reform program suggested in the wake of the Great Depression by a group of University of Chicago economists including Henry Simons, Garfield Cox, Aaron Director, Paul Douglas, Albert G. Hart, Frank Knight, Lloyd Mints and Henry Schultz.

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Chrysler

FCA US, LLC, doing business as Stellantis North America and known historically as Chrysler, is one of the "Big Three" automobile manufacturers in the United States, headquartered in Auburn Hills, Michigan.

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Chuck Schumer

Charles Ellis Schumer (born November 23, 1950) is an American politician serving as Senate Majority Leader since 2021 and as a United States senator from New York since 1999.

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Citigroup

Citigroup Inc. or Citi (stylized as citi) is an American multinational investment bank and financial services company in New York City.

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City Journal

City Journal is a public policy magazine and website, published by the conservative Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, that covers a range of topics on urban affairs, such as policing, education, housing, and other issues.

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Claremont Review of Books

The Claremont Review of Books (CRB) is a quarterly review of politics and statesmanship published by the conservative Claremont Institute.

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CNBC

CNBC is an American business news channel owned by NBCUniversal News Group, a unit of Comcast's NBCUniversal.

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CNET

CNET (short for "Computer Network") is an American media website that publishes reviews, news, articles, blogs, podcasts, and videos on technology and consumer electronics globally.

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CNN

Cable News Network (CNN) is a multinational news channel and website operating from Midtown Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. Founded in 1980 by American media proprietor Ted Turner and Reese Schonfeld as a 24-hour cable news channel, and presently owned by the Manhattan-based media conglomerate Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD), CNN was the first television channel to provide 24-hour news coverage and the first all-news television channel in the United States.

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Collateralized debt obligation

A collateralized debt obligation (CDO) is a type of structured asset-backed security (ABS).

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Commercial bank

A commercial bank is a financial institution that accepts deposits from the public and gives loans for the purposes of consumption and investment to make a profit.

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Commercial mortgage-backed security

Commercial mortgage-backed securities (CMBS) are a type of mortgage-backed security backed by commercial and multifamily mortgages rather than residential real estate.

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Commercial paper

Commercial paper, in the global financial market, is an unsecured promissory note with a fixed maturity of usually less than 270 days.

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Commodity

In economics, a commodity is an economic good, usually a resource, that specifically has full or substantial fungibility: that is, the market treats instances of the good as equivalent or nearly so with no regard to who produced them.

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Commodity Futures Modernization Act of 2000

The Commodity Futures Modernization Act of 2000 (CFMA) is United States federal legislation that ensured financial products known as over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives remained unregulated.

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Community Reinvestment Act

The Community Reinvestment Act (CRA, P.L. 95-128, 91 Stat. 1147, title VIII of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1977, et seq.) is a United States federal law designed to encourage commercial banks and savings associations to help meet the needs of borrowers in all segments of their communities, including low- and moderate-income neighborhoods.

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Conflict of interest

A conflict of interest (COI) is a situation in which a person or organization is involved in multiple interests, financial or otherwise, and serving one interest could involve working against another.

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Congress.gov

Congress.gov is the online database of United States Congress legislative information.

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Conservatorship

Under U.S. law, a conservatorship results from the appointment of a guardian or a protector by a judge to manage the personal or financial affairs of another person who is incapable of fully managing their own affairs due to age or physical or mental limitations.

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Consumer protection

Consumer protection is the practice of safeguarding buyers of goods and services, and the public, against unfair practices in the marketplace.

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Cooperative banking

Cooperative banking is retail and commercial banking organized on a cooperative basis.

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Copula (probability theory)

In probability theory and statistics, a copula is a multivariate cumulative distribution function for which the marginal probability distribution of each variable is uniform on the interval.

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Corporate governance

Corporate governance are mechanisms, processes and relations by which corporations are controlled and operated ("governed").

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Crash Proof

Crash Proof: How to Profit From the Coming Economic Collapse is an investment book by American investment broker, Peter Schiff.

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Credit default swap

A credit default swap (CDS) is a financial swap agreement that the seller of the CDS will compensate the buyer in the event of a debt default (by the debtor) or other credit event. 2007–2008 financial crisis and credit default swap are systemic risk.

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Credit derivative

In finance, a credit derivative refers to any one of "various instruments and techniques designed to separate and then transfer the credit risk"The Economist Passing on the risks 2 November 1996 or the risk of an event of default of a corporate or sovereign borrower, transferring it to an entity other than the lender or debtholder.

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Credit rating

A credit rating is an evaluation of the credit risk of a prospective debtor (an individual, a business, company or a government), predicting their ability to pay back the debt, and an implicit forecast of the likelihood of the debtor defaulting.

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Credit rating agencies and the subprime crisis

Credit rating agencies and the subprime crisis is the impact of credit rating agencies (CRAs) in the American subprime mortgage crisis of 2007–2008 that led to the financial crisis of 2007–2008. 2007–2008 financial crisis and credit rating agencies and the subprime crisis are 2000s in economic history.

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Credit rating agency

A credit rating agency (CRA, also called a ratings service) is a company that assigns credit ratings, which rate a debtor's ability to pay back debt by making timely principal and interest payments and the likelihood of default.

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Credit Suisse

Credit Suisse Group AG is a global investment bank and financial services firm founded and based in Switzerland as a standalone firm but now a subsidiary of UBS.

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Credit union

A credit union is a member-owned nonprofit cooperative financial institution.

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Crisis theory

Crisis theory, concerning the causes and consequences of the tendency for the rate of profit to fall in a capitalist system, is associated with Marxian critique of political economy, and was further popularised through Marxist economics.

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Cross-collateralization

Cross-collateralization is a term used when the collateral for one loan is also used as collateral for another loan.

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Currency crisis

A currency crisis is a type of financial crisis, and is often associated with a real economic crisis. 2007–2008 financial crisis and currency crisis are financial crises.

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Current account (balance of payments)

In macroeconomics and international finance, a country's current account records the value of exports and imports of both goods and services and international transfers of capital.

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D+C Development and Cooperation

D+C Development and Cooperation is a monthly English language journal funded by Germany’s Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development.

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Daedalus (journal)

Dædalus is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal that was established in 1846 as the Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, obtaining its current title in 1958.

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David Brooks (commentator)

David Brooks (born August 11, 1961) is a Canadian-born American conservative political and cultural commentator who writes for The New York Times.

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David S. Loeb

David S. Loeb (January 19, 1924 – June 30, 2003) was the co-founder of both Countrywide Financial Corp and IndyMac Bank along with former protégé and longtime business partner Angelo Mozilo.

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David X. Li

David X. Li (born Nanjing, China in the 1960s) is a Chinese-born Canadian quantitative analyst and actuary who pioneered the use of Gaussian copula models for the pricing of collateralized debt obligations (CDOs) in the early 2000s.

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Dean Baker

Dean Baker (born July 13, 1958) is an American macroeconomist who co-founded the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) with Mark Weisbrot.

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Deflation

In economics, deflation is a decrease in the general price level of goods and services.

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Delta Financial Corporation

Delta Funding Corporation (abbreviated to DFC) was a specialty consumer finance company that originated, securitized and sold non-conforming mortgage loans.

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Demeter Press

Demeter Press is a not-for-profit feminist academic publisher headquartered in Ontario, Canada.

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Democracy Now!

Democracy Now! is an hour-long TV, radio, and Internet news program based in Manhattan and hosted by journalists Amy Goodman (who also acts as the show's executive producer), Juan González, and Nermeen Shaikh.

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Deposit insurance

Deposit insurance or deposit protection is a measure implemented in many countries to protect bank depositors, in full or in part, from losses caused by a bank's inability to pay its debts when due.

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Depository Institutions Deregulation and Monetary Control Act

The Depository Institutions Deregulation and Monetary Control Act of 1980 (often abbreviated DIDMCA or MCA) is a United States federal financial statute passed in 1980 and signed by President Jimmy Carter on March 31.

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Derivative (finance)

In finance, a derivative is a contract that derives its value from the performance of an underlying entity.

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Deutsche Bank

Deutsche Bank AG is a German multinational investment bank and financial services company headquartered in Frankfurt, Germany, and dual-listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange and the New York Stock Exchange.

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Developing country

A developing country is a sovereign state with a less developed industrial base and a lower Human Development Index (HDI) relative to other countries.

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Dirk Bezemer

Dirk Bezemer (born 1971) is a Dutch economist who is a professor at the Faculty of Economics and Business of the Rijksuniversiteit Groningen.

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Disposable income

Disposable income is total personal income minus current taxes on income.

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Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act

The Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, commonly referred to as Dodd–Frank, is a United States federal law that was enacted on July 21, 2010. 2007–2008 financial crisis and Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act are great Recession in the United States, Presidency of Barack Obama and systemic risk.

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Dot-com bubble

The dot-com bubble (or dot-com boom) was a stock market bubble that ballooned during the late-1990s and peaked on Friday, March 10, 2000. 2007–2008 financial crisis and dot-com bubble are 2000s in economic history, economic bubbles and stock market crashes.

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Dotdash Meredith

Dotdash Meredith (formerly The Mining Company, About.com and Dotdash) is an American digital media company based in New York City.

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Dow Jones Industrial Average

The Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA), Dow Jones, or simply the Dow, is a stock market index of 30 prominent companies listed on stock exchanges in the United States.

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Durable good

In economics, a durable good or a hard good or consumer durable is a good that does not quickly wear out or, more specifically, one that yields utility over time rather than being completely consumed in one use.

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Economic collapse

Economic collapse, also called economic meltdown, is any of a broad range of bad economic conditions, ranging from a severe, prolonged depression with high bankruptcy rates and high unemployment (such as the Great Depression of the 1930s), to a breakdown in normal commerce caused by hyperinflation (such as in Weimar Germany in the 1920s), or even an economically caused sharp rise in the death rate and perhaps even a decline in population (such as in countries of the former USSR in the 1990s).

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Economic growth

Economic growth can be defined as the increase or improvement in the inflation-adjusted market value of the goods and services produced by an economy in a financial year.

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Economic policy

The economy of governments covers the systems for setting levels of taxation, government budgets, the money supply and interest rates as well as the labour market, national ownership, and many other areas of government interventions into the economy.

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Economic recovery

An economic recovery is the phase of the business cycle following a recession.

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Economic Stimulus Act of 2008

The Economic Stimulus Act of 2008 was an Act of Congress providing for several kinds of economic stimuli intended to boost the United States economy in 2008 and to avert a recession, or ameliorate economic conditions. 2007–2008 financial crisis and economic Stimulus Act of 2008 are 2008 in economic history and great Recession in the United States.

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Emerald Group Publishing

Emerald Publishing Limited is a scholarly publisher of academic journals and books, headquartered in Leeds, England.

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Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008

The Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008, also known as the "bank bailout of 2008" or the "Wall Street bailout", was a United States federal law enacted during the Great Recession, which created federal programs to "bail out" failing financial institutions and banks. 2007–2008 financial crisis and Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 are 2008 in economic history and great Recession in the United States.

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Emmanuel Farhi

Emmanuel Farhi (8 September 1978 – 23 July 2020) was a French economist who served as the Robert C. Waggoner Professor of Economics at Harvard University from 2018 till his death in 2020.

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Empire of Democracy

Empire of Democracy (strapline: The Remaking of the West Since the Cold War, 1971-2019) is a 2019 book by British geographer and scholar Simon Reid-Henry about the transformation of Western democracy arising from neoliberalism and its impacts on political processes.

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Enron

Enron Corporation was an American energy, commodities, and services company based in Houston, Texas.

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Enron scandal

The Enron scandal was an accounting scandal involving Enron Corporation, an American energy company based in Houston, Texas. 2007–2008 financial crisis and Enron scandal are 2000s in economic history.

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European Central Bank

The European Central Bank (ECB) is the central component of the Eurosystem and the European System of Central Banks (ESCB) as well as one of seven institutions of the European Union.

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European debt crisis

The European debt crisis, often also referred to as the eurozone crisis or the European sovereign debt crisis, was a multi-year debt crisis that took place in the European Union (EU) from 2009 until the mid to late 2010s. 2007–2008 financial crisis and European debt crisis are stock market crashes.

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Eviction

Eviction is the removal of a tenant from rental property by the landlord.

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Executive compensation

Executive compensation is composed of both the financial compensation (executive pay) and other non-financial benefits received by an executive from their employing firm in return for their service.

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Fair value accounting and the subprime mortgage crisis

The role of fair value accounting in the subprime mortgage crisis of 2008 is controversial.

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Fannie Mae

The Federal National Mortgage Association (FNMA), commonly known as Fannie Mae, is a United States government-sponsored enterprise (GSE) and, since 1968, a publicly traded company.

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Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) is a United States government corporation supplying deposit insurance to depositors in American commercial banks and savings banks.

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Federal funds rate

In the United States, the federal funds rate is the interest rate at which depository institutions (banks and credit unions) lend reserve balances to other depository institutions overnight on an uncollateralized basis.

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Federal government of the United States

The federal government of the United States (U.S. federal government or U.S. government) is the national government of the United States, a federal republic located primarily in North America, composed of 50 states, five major self-governing territories, several island possessions, and the federal district/national capital of Washington, D.C., where most of the federal government is based.

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Federal Home Loan Banks

The Federal Home Loan Banks (FHLBanks, or FHLBank System) are 11 U.S. government-sponsored banks that provide liquidity to financial institutions to support housing finance and community investment.

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Federal Housing Finance Agency

The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) is an independent federal agency in the United States created as the successor regulatory agency of the Federal Housing Finance Board (FHFB), the Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight (OFHEO), and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development government-sponsored enterprise mission team, absorbing the powers and regulatory authority of both entities, with expanded legal and regulatory authority, including the ability to place government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs) into receivership or conservatorship.

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Federal Open Market Committee

The Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) is a committee within the Federal Reserve System (the Fed) that is charged under United States law with overseeing the nation's open market operations (e.g., the Fed's buying and selling of United States Treasury securities).

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Federal Reserve

The Federal Reserve System (often shortened to the Federal Reserve, or simply the Fed) is the central banking system of the United States.

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Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis

The Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, located in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in the United States, covers the 9th District of the Federal Reserve, which is made up of Minnesota, Montana, North and South Dakota, northwestern Wisconsin, and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.

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Federal Reserve Bank of New York

The Federal Reserve Bank of New York is one of the 12 Federal Reserve Banks of the United States.

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Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco

The Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco (informally referred to as the San Francisco Fed) is the federal bank for the twelfth district in the United States.

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Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis

The Federal Reserve Bank of St.

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Federal Reserve Board of Governors

The Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, commonly known as the Federal Reserve Board, is the main governing body of the Federal Reserve System.

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Federal Reserve Economic Data

Federal Reserve Economic Data (FRED) is a database maintained by the Research division of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis that has more than 816,000 economic time series from various sources.

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Federal takeover of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac

In September 2008, the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) announced that it would take over the Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae) and the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (Freddie Mac). 2007–2008 financial crisis and Federal takeover of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are 2000s in economic history.

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Fellow

A fellow is a concept whose exact meaning depends on context.

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Finance capitalism

Finance capitalism or financial capitalism is the subordination of processes of production to the accumulation of money profits in a financial system. Financial capitalism is thus a form of capitalism where the intermediation of saving to investment becomes a dominant function in the economy, with wider implications for the political process and social evolution.

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Financial Accounting Standards Board

The Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) is a private standard-setting body whose primary purpose is to establish and improve Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) within the United States in the public's interest.

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Financial capital

Financial capital (also simply known as capital or equity in finance, accounting and economics) is any economic resource measured in terms of money used by entrepreneurs and businesses to buy what they need to make their products or to provide their services to the sector of the economy upon which their operation is based (e.g.

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Financial contagion

Financial contagion refers to "the spread of market disturbances mostly on the downside from one country to the other, a process observed through co-movements in exchange rates, stock prices, sovereign spreads, and capital flows". 2007–2008 financial crisis and Financial contagion are financial crises.

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Financial crisis

A financial crisis is any of a broad variety of situations in which some financial assets suddenly lose a large part of their nominal value. 2007–2008 financial crisis and financial crisis are economic bubbles, financial crises and systemic risk.

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Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission

The Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission (FCIC) was a ten-member commission appointed by the leaders of the United States Congress with the goal of investigating the causes of the financial crisis of 2007–2008. 2007–2008 financial crisis and financial Crisis Inquiry Commission are 2000s in economic history, great Recession in the United States and systemic risk.

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Financial Crisis Responsibility Fee

The Financial Crisis Responsibility Fee was a bank tax proposed by U.S. President Barack Obama in January 2010, to apply to financial firms with $50 billion (~$ in) or more in consolidated assets.

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Financial engineering

Financial engineering is a multidisciplinary field involving financial theory, methods of engineering, tools of mathematics and the practice of programming.

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Financial innovation

Financial innovation is the act of creating new financial instruments as well as new financial technologies, institutions, and markets.

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Financial institution

A financial institution, sometimes called a banking institution, is a business entity that provides service as an intermediary for different types of financial monetary transactions.

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Financial regulation

Financial regulation is a broad set of policies that apply to the financial sector in most jurisdictions, justified by two main features of finance: systemic risk, which implies that the failure of financial firms involves public interest considerations; and information asymmetry, which justifies curbs on freedom of contract in selected areas of financial services, particularly those that involve retail clients and/or Principal–agent problems.

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Financial risk

Financial risk is any of various types of risk associated with financing, including financial transactions that include company loans in risk of default.

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Financial Times

The Financial Times (FT) is a British daily newspaper printed in broadsheet and also published digitally that focuses on business and economic current affairs. 2007–2008 financial crisis and Financial Times are economy of the United Kingdom.

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Financialization

Financialization (or financialisation in British English) is a term sometimes used to describe the development of financial capitalism during the period from 1980 to present, in which debt-to-equity ratios increased and financial services accounted for an increasing share of national income relative to other sectors.

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Fiscal policy

In economics and political science, fiscal policy is the use of government revenue collection (taxes or tax cuts) and expenditure to influence a country's economy.

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Florida

Florida is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States.

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Forbes

Forbes is an American business magazine founded by B. C. Forbes in 1917 and owned by Hong Kong-based investment group Integrated Whale Media Investments since 2014.

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Foreclosure

Foreclosure is a legal process in which a lender attempts to recover the balance of a loan from a borrower who has stopped making payments to the lender by forcing the sale of the asset used as the collateral for the loan.

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Foreign Affairs

Foreign Affairs is an American magazine of international relations and U.S. foreign policy published by the Council on Foreign Relations, a nonprofit, nonpartisan, membership organization and think tank specializing in U.S. foreign policy and international affairs.

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Foreign direct investment

A foreign direct investment (FDI) refers to purchase of an asset in another country, such that it gives direct control to the purchaser over the asset (e.g. purchase of land and building).

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Fox News

The Fox News Channel (FNC), commonly known as Fox News, is an American multinational conservative news and political commentary television channel and website based in New York City.

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Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

The (FAZ; "Frankfurt General Newspaper") is a German newspaper founded in 1949.

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FRASER

The Federal Reserve Archival System for Economic Research (FRASER) is a digital archive begun in 2004 by the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis to safeguard, preserve and provide easy access to the United States' economic history, particularly the history of the Federal Reserve System, through digitization of documents related to the U.S.

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Fraud

In law, fraud is intentional deception to secure unfair or unlawful gain, or to deprive a victim of a legal right.

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Fraud Enforcement and Recovery Act of 2009

The Fraud Enforcement and Recovery Act of 2009, or FERA,, is a public law in the United States enacted in 2009. 2007–2008 financial crisis and Fraud Enforcement and Recovery Act of 2009 are Presidency of Barack Obama.

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Fred Harrison (author)

Fred Harrison (born 1944) is a British author, economist, economic commentator, and corporate policy advisor, notable for his stances on land reform and belief that an overreliance on land, property, and mortgages weakens economic structures and makes companies vulnerable to economic collapse.

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Freddie Mac

The Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (FHLMC), commonly known as Freddie Mac, is a publicly traded, government-sponsored enterprise (GSE), headquartered in Tysons, Virginia.

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Frontline (American TV program)

Frontline (stylized in all capital letters) is an investigative documentary program distributed by the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) in the United States.

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FTSE 100 Index

The Financial Times Stock Exchange 100 Index, also called the FTSE 100 Index, FTSE 100, FTSE, or, informally, the "Footsie", is the United Kingdom's best-known stock market index of the 100 most highly capitalised blue chips listed on the London Stock Exchange.

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Garn–St. Germain Depository Institutions Act

The Garn–St Germain Depository Institutions Act of 1982 (enacted October 15, 1982) is an Act of Congress that deregulated savings and loan associations and allowed banks to provide adjustable-rate mortgage loans.

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Geir Haarde

Geir Hilmar Haarde (born 8 April 1951) is an Icelandic politician, who served as prime minister of Iceland from 15 June 2006 to 1 February 2009 and as president of the Nordic Council in 1995.

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General Motors

General Motors Company (GM) is an American multinational automotive manufacturing company headquartered in Detroit, Michigan, United States.

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George Soros

George Soros (born György Schwartz on August 12, 1930) is a Hungarian-American businessman, investor, and philanthropist.

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George W. Bush

George Walker Bush (born July 6, 1946) is an American politician and businessman who served as the 43rd president of the United States from 2001 to 2009.

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Glass–Steagall legislation

The Glass–Steagall legislation describes four provisions of the United States Banking Act of 1933 separating commercial and investment banking.

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Global financial system

The global financial system is the worldwide framework of legal agreements, institutions, and both formal and informal economic action that together facilitate international flows of financial capital for purposes of investment and trade financing.

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Global recession

A global recession is a recession that affects many countries around the world—that is, a period of global economic slowdown or declining economic output.

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Global saving glut

A global saving glut (also GSG, cash hoarding, dead cash, dead money, glut of excess intended saving, or shortfall of investment intentions) is a situation in which desired savingAccording to national saving is the "sum of saving done by households (for example, through contributions to employer-sponsored pension accounts) and saving done by businesses (in the form of retained earnings) less any budget deficit run by the government (which is a use rather than a source of saving). 2007–2008 financial crisis and global saving glut are financial crises.

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Goldman Sachs

The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. is an American multinational investment bank and financial services company.

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Government-sponsored enterprise

A government-sponsored enterprise (GSE) is a type of financial services corporation created by the United States Congress.

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Gramm–Leach–Bliley Act

The Gramm–Leach–Bliley Act (GLBA), also known as the Financial Services Modernization Act of 1999, is an act of the 106th United States Congress (1999–2001).

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Great Depression

The Great Depression (19291939) was a severe global economic downturn that affected many countries across the world. 2007–2008 financial crisis and Great Depression are financial crises.

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Great Recession

The Great Recession was a period of marked decline in economies around the world that occurred in the late 2000s. 2007–2008 financial crisis and Great Recession are 2000s in economic history, 2007 in economic history, 2008 in economic history and financial crises.

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Greece

Greece, officially the Hellenic Republic, is a country in Southeast Europe.

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Gross domestic product

Gross domestic product (GDP) is a monetary measure of the market value of all the final goods and services produced and rendered in a specific time period by a country or countries.

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Guernica (magazine)

Guernica / A Magazine of Art and Politics is an American online magazine that publishes art, photography, fiction, and poetry, along with nonfiction such as letters, investigative pieces, and opinion pieces on international affairs and U.S. domestic policy.

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Harvard University Press

Harvard University Press (HUP) is a publishing house established on January 13, 1913, as a division of Harvard University, and focused on academic publishing.

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Hedge fund

A hedge fund is a pooled investment fund that holds liquid assets and that makes use of complex trading and risk management techniques to improve investment performance and insulate returns from market risk.

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Henry Paulson

Henry "Hank" Merritt Paulson Jr. (born March 28, 1946) is an American investment banker and financier who served as the 74th United States Secretary of the Treasury from 2006 to 2009.

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Henry Waxman

Henry Arnold Waxman (born September 12, 1939) is an American politician and lobbyist who was a U.S. representative from California from 1975 to 2015.

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Heterodox economics

Heterodox economics is any economic thought or theory that contrasts with orthodox schools of economic thought, or that may be beyond neoclassical economics.

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History of wikis

The history of wikis began in 1994, when Ward Cunningham gave the name "WikiWikiWeb" to the knowledge base, which ran on his company's website at c2.com, and the wiki software that powered it.

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Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 2008

The United States Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 2008 (commonly referred to as HERA) was designed primarily to address the subprime mortgage crisis. 2007–2008 financial crisis and Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 2008 are 2008 in economic history.

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Housing bubble

A housing bubble (or housing price bubble) is one of several types of asset price bubbles which periodically occur in the market. 2007–2008 financial crisis and housing bubble are economic bubbles.

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HuffPost

HuffPost (The Huffington Post until 2017; often abbreviated as HuffPo) is an American progressive news website, with localized and international editions.

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Hyman Minsky

Hyman Philip Minsky (September 23, 1919 – October 24, 1996) was an American economist, a professor of economics at Washington University in St. Louis, and a distinguished scholar at the Levy Economics Institute of Bard College.

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Iceland

Iceland (Ísland) is a Nordic island country between the North Atlantic and Arctic Oceans, on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge between North America and Europe.

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Icelandic króna

The króna or krona (sometimes called Icelandic crown; sign: kr; code: ISK) is the currency of Iceland.

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IKB Deutsche Industriebank

IKB Deutsche Industriebank AG (FWB: IKBG) is a bank headquartered in Düsseldorf, Germany.

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Income inequality in the United States

Income inequality has fluctuated considerably in the United States since measurements began around 1915, moving in an arc between peaks in the 1920s and 2000s, with a 30-year period of relatively lower inequality between 1950 and 1980.

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Independent Journal Review

The Independent Journal Review (IJR) is a conservative American news and opinion website based in Alexandria, Virginia.

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Indonesia

Indonesia, officially the Republic of Indonesia, is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania between the Indian and Pacific oceans.

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IndyMac

IndyMac, a contraction of Independent National Mortgage Corporation, was an American bank based in California that failed in 2008 and was seized by the United States Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC).

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Inflation

In economics, inflation is a general increase in the prices of goods and services in an economy.

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Inside Job (2010 film)

Inside Job is a 2010 American documentary film, directed by Charles Ferguson, about the late-2000s financial crisis.

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Institutional investor

An institutional investor is an entity that pools money to purchase securities, real property, and other investment assets or originate loans.

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International Labour Organization

The International Labour Organization (ILO) is a United Nations agency whose mandate is to advance social and economic justice by setting international labour standards.

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International Monetary Fund

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is a major financial agency of the United Nations, and an international financial institution funded by 190 member countries, with headquarters in Washington, D.C. It is regarded as the global lender of last resort to national governments, and a leading supporter of exchange-rate stability.

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Investment banking

Investment banking is an advisory-based financial service for institutional investors, corporations, governments, and similar clients.

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Investment management

Investment management (sometimes referred to more generally as asset management) is the professional asset management of various securities, including shareholdings, bonds, and other assets, such as real estate, to meet specified investment goals for the benefit of investors.

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Jakob B. Madsen

Jakob Brøchner Madsen (born in Randers, Denmark) is an economist, professor and former financial analyst and deputy chief economist (Bank of Jutland).

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James B. Stewart

James Bennett Stewart (born c. 1952) is an American lawyer, journalist, and author.

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James Burnham

James Burnham (November 22, 1905 – July 28, 1987) was an American philosopher and political theorist.

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Janet Yellen

Janet Louise Yellen (born August 13, 1946) is an American economist serving as the 78th United States secretary of the treasury since January 26, 2021.

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Japan and the World Economy

Japan and the World Economy is a peer-reviewed academic journal that was established in 1989 and is edited by Shin-Ichi Fukuda.

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Japanese yen

The is the official currency of Japan.

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Jerry Brown

Edmund Gerald Brown Jr. (born April 7, 1938) is an American lawyer, author, and politician who served as the 34th and 39th governor of California from 1975 to 1983 and 2011 to 2019.

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Jimmy Carter

James Earl Carter Jr. (born October 1, 1924) is an American politician and humanitarian who served as the 39th president of the United States from 1977 to 1981.

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Johan Norberg

Johan Norberg (born 1973) is a Swedish author and historian of ideas, devoted to promoting economic globalization and what he describes as classical liberal positions.

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John Bellamy Foster

John Bellamy Foster (born August 19, 1953) is an American professor of sociology at the University of Oregon and editor of the Monthly Review.

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John C. Bogle

John Clifton "Jack" Bogle (May 8, 1929 – January 16, 2019) was an American investor, business magnate and philanthropist.

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John Lanchester

John Henry Lanchester (born 25 February 1962) is a British journalist and novelist.

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John McMurtry (academic)

John McMurtry was a University Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the University of Guelph, Canada.

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John Quiggin

John Quiggin (born 29 March 1956) is an Australian economist, a professor at the University of Queensland.

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Joint Center for Housing Studies

The Joint Center for Housing Studies is a research center on housing-related issues at Harvard Kennedy School at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Through its research, education, and public outreach programs, the center helps leaders in government, business, and the civic sectors make decisions that effectively address the needs of cities and communities.

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Journal of Economic Perspectives

The Journal of Economic Perspectives (JEP) is an economic journal published by the American Economic Association.

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JPMorgan Chase

JPMorgan Chase & Co. (stylized as JPMorganChase) is an American multinational finance company headquartered in New York City and incorporated in Delaware.

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Kareem Serageldin

Kareem Serageldin (born in 1973) is a former executive at Credit Suisse. 2007–2008 financial crisis and Kareem Serageldin are great Recession.

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KfW

The KfW, which together with its subsidiaries DEG, KfW IPEX-Bank and FuB forms the KfW Bankengruppe ("banking group"), is a German state-owned investment and development bank, based in Frankfurt.

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Kondratiev wave

In economics, Kondratiev waves (also called supercycles, great surges, long waves, K-waves or the long economic cycle) are hypothesized cycle-like phenomena in the modern world economy.

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Kurt Richebächer

Kurt Richebächer (1918 – August 24, 2007) was born in Karlsruhe, Germany.

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The Legal Information Institute (LII) is a non-profit public service of Cornell Law School that provides no-cost access to current American and international legal research sources online.

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Lehman Brothers

Lehman Brothers Inc. was an American global financial services firm founded in 1850.

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Lender of last resort

In public finance, a lender of last resort (LOLR) is the institution in a financial system that acts as the provider of liquidity to a financial institution which finds itself unable to obtain sufficient liquidity in the interbank lending market when other facilities or such sources have been exhausted.

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Leverage (finance)

In finance, leverage, also known as gearing, is any technique involving borrowing funds to buy an investment.

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LexisNexis

LexisNexis is an American data analytics company headquartered in New York, New York.

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Libertarianism

Libertarianism (from libertaire, itself from the lit) is a political philosophy that upholds liberty as a core value.

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Library of Congress

The Library of Congress (LOC) is a research library in Washington, D.C. that serves as the library and research service of the U.S. Congress and the de facto national library of the United States.

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Liquidity

Liquidity is a concept in economics involving the convertibility of assets and obligations.

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Liquidity trap

A liquidity trap is a situation, described in Keynesian economics, in which, "after the rate of interest has fallen to a certain level, liquidity preference may become virtually absolute in the sense that almost everyone prefers holding cash rather than holding a debt (financial instrument) which yields so low a rate of interest."Keynes, John Maynard (1936) The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money, United Kingdom: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007 edition, A liquidity trap is caused when people hold cash because they expect an adverse event such as deflation, insufficient aggregate demand, or war.

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List of acronyms associated with the eurozone crisis

This is a list of acronyms and initialisms associated with the eurozone crisis.

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List of bank failures in the United States (2008–present)

On average, between 1980 and 1994, a US bank failed every three days. 2007–2008 financial crisis and List of bank failures in the United States (2008–present) are 2008 in economic history.

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List of banks acquired or bankrupted during the Great Recession

This is a list of notable financial institutions worldwide that were severely affected by the Great Recession centered in 2007–2009. 2007–2008 financial crisis and list of banks acquired or bankrupted during the Great Recession are great Recession.

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List of banks acquired or bankrupted in the United States during the 2007–2008 financial crisis

This is a list of banks in the United States affected by the 2007–2008 financial crisis. 2007–2008 financial crisis and list of banks acquired or bankrupted in the United States during the 2007–2008 financial crisis are 2007 in economic history, 2008 in economic history and great Recession in the United States.

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List of economic crises

This is a list of economic crises and depressions.

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List of entities involved in 2007–2008 financial crises

A list of companies, governmental and quasi-governmental agencies (government-sponsored enterprises), and/or non-profit organizations involved in the various economic and financial crises of 2007–2008. 2007–2008 financial crisis and list of entities involved in 2007–2008 financial crises are 2007 in economic history, 2008 in economic history and great Recession.

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List of largest bank failures in the United States

Since the 1970s, over 90 banks in the United States with billion or more in assets have failed.

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Long-Term Capital Management

Long-Term Capital Management L.P. (LTCM) was a highly leveraged hedge fund. 2007–2008 financial crisis and Long-Term Capital Management are financial crises.

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Los Angeles

Los Angeles, often referred to by its initials L.A., is the most populous city in the U.S. state of California.

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Los Angeles Times

The Los Angeles Times is a regional American daily newspaper that began publishing in Los Angeles, California in 1881.

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Low-Income Countries Under Stress

Low-Income Countries Under Stress (LICUS) is a World Bank program aimed at poverty reduction in developing countries.

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Mail and wire fraud

Mail fraud and wire fraud are terms used in the United States to describe the use of a physical (e.g., the U.S. Postal Service) or electronic (e.g., a phone, a telegram, a fax, or the Internet) mail system to defraud another, and are U.S. federal crimes.

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Mainstream economics

Mainstream economics is the body of knowledge, theories, and models of economics, as taught by universities worldwide, that are generally accepted by economists as a basis for discussion.

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Margin (finance)

In finance, margin is the collateral that a holder of a financial instrument has to deposit with a counterparty (most often their broker or an exchange) to cover some or all of the credit risk the holder poses for the counterparty.

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Margin Call

Margin Call is a 2011 American drama film written and directed by J. C. Chandor in his feature directorial debut.

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Margunn Bjørnholt

Margunn Bjørnholt (born 9 October 1958 in Bø, Telemark) is a Norwegian sociologist and economist.

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Mario Draghi

Mario Draghi (born 3 September 1947) is an Italian economist, academic, banker, statesman and civil servant who served as the prime minister of Italy from February 2021 to October 2022.

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Mark Roeder

Mark Lewis Mendick Roeder (born 28 May 1957) is an Australian-British author and cultural commentator.

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Mark-to-market accounting

Mark-to-market (MTM or M2M) or fair value accounting is accounting for the "fair value" of an asset or liability based on the current market price, or the price for similar assets and liabilities, or based on another objectively assessed "fair" value.

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Market saturation

In economics, market saturation is a situation in which a product has become diffused (distributed) within a market; the actual level of saturation can depend on consumer purchasing power; as well as competition, prices, and technology.

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Marketplace (radio program)

Marketplace is an American radio program that focuses on business, the economy, and events that influence them.

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MarketWatch

MarketWatch is a website that provides financial information, business news, analysis, and stock market data.

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Martin Luther King Jr. Day

Martin Luther King Jr.

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Martin Wolf

Martin Harry Wolf (born 16 August 1946 in London) is a British journalist who focuses on economics.

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Marxian economics

Marxian economics, or the Marxian school of economics, is a heterodox school of political economic thought.

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Master Liquidity Enhancement Conduit

The Master Liquidity Enhancement Conduit (MLEC), also known as the Super SIV (structured investment vehicle), was a plan announced by three major banks based in the United States on October 15, 2007, to help alleviate the subprime mortgage financial crisis.

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McGraw Hill Education

McGraw Hill is an American publishing company for educational content, software, and services for pre-K through postgraduate education.

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Med Jones

Med Jones (a.k.a. Med Yones) is an American economist.

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Merrill (company)

Merrill (officially Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated), previously branded Merrill Lynch, is an American investment management and wealth management division of Bank of America.

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Mezzanine capital

Mezzanine capital is a type of financing that sits between senior debt and equity in a company's capital structure.

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Michael Burry

Michael James Burry (born June 19, 1971) is an American investor and hedge fund manager.

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Michael Hudson (economist)

Michael Hudson (born March 14, 1939) is an American economist, Professor of Economics at the University of Missouri–Kansas City and a researcher at the Levy Economics Institute at Bard College, former Wall Street analyst, political consultant, commentator and journalist.

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Michael Lewis

Michael Monroe Lewis (born October 15, 1960) Gale Biography In Context.

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Milken Institute

The Milken Institute is an independent economic think tank based in Santa Monica, California, with offices in Washington, D.C., New York, Miami, London, Abu Dhabi, and Singapore.

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Minority group

The term "minority group" has different usages, depending on the context.

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Mises Institute

The Ludwig von Mises Institute for Austrian Economics, or Mises Institute, is a nonprofit think tank headquartered in Auburn, Alabama, that is a center for Austrian economics, radical right-wing libertarian thought and the paleolibertarian and anarcho-capitalist movements in the United States.

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Monetary policy

Monetary policy is the policy adopted by the monetary authority of a nation to affect monetary and other financial conditions to accomplish broader objectives like high employment and price stability (normally interpreted as a low and stable rate of inflation).

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Money (financial website)

Money is an American brand and a personal finance website owned by Money Group  — and formerly a monthly magazine first published by Time Inc. (1972–2018) and later by Meredith Corporation (2018–2019).

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Money market

The money market is a component of the economy that provides short-term funds.

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Money market fund

A money market fund (also called a money market mutual fund) is an open-end mutual fund that invests in short-term debt securities such as US Treasury bills and commercial paper.

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Monthly Review

The Monthly Review is an independent socialist magazine published monthly in New York City.

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Moody's Ratings

Moody's Ratings, previously known as Moody's Investors Service, often referred to as Moody's, is the bond credit rating business of Moody's Corporation, representing the company's traditional line of business and its historical name.

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Moral hazard

In economics, a moral hazard is a situation where an economic actor has an incentive to increase its exposure to risk because it does not bear the full costs of that risk.

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Morgan Stanley

Morgan Stanley is an American multinational investment bank and financial services company headquartered at 1585 Broadway in Midtown Manhattan, New York City.

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Mortgage

A mortgage loan or simply mortgage, in civil law jurisdictions known also as a hypothec loan, is a loan used either by purchasers of real property to raise funds to buy real estate, or by existing property owners to raise funds for any purpose while putting a lien on the property being mortgaged.

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Mortgage fraud

Mortgage fraud refers to an intentional misstatement, misrepresentation, or omission of information relied upon by an underwriter or lender to fund, purchase, or insure a loan secured by real property.

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Mortgage underwriting

Mortgage underwriting is the process a lender uses to determine if the risk (especially the risk that the borrower will default) of offering a mortgage loan to a particular borrower is acceptable and is a part of the larger mortgage origination process.

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Mortgage-backed security

A mortgage-backed security (MBS) is a type of asset-backed security (an "instrument") which is secured by a mortgage or collection of mortgages.

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MUFG Bank

is a Japanese bank.

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Municipal disinvestment

Municipal disinvestment is a term in the United States which describes an urban planning process in which a city or town or other municipal entity decides to abandon or neglect an area.

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Nadir

The nadir is the direction pointing directly below a particular location; that is, it is one of two vertical directions at a specified location, orthogonal to a horizontal flat surface.

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Nancy Pelosi

Nancy Patricia Pelosi (born March 26, 1940) is an American politician who served as the 52nd speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 2007 to 2011 and again from 2019 to 2023.

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Nassim Nicholas Taleb (alternatively Nessim or Nissim; born 12 September 1960) is a Lebanese-American essayist, mathematical statistician, former option trader, risk analyst, and aphorist.

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National Bureau of Economic Research

The National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) is an American private nonprofit research organization "committed to undertaking and disseminating unbiased economic research among public policymakers, business professionals, and the academic community." The NBER is known for proposing start and end dates for recessions in the United States.

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National City Corp.

National City Corporation was a regional bank holding company based in Cleveland, Ohio, founded in 1845; it was once one of the ten largest banks in America in terms of deposits, mortgages and home equity lines of credit. 2007–2008 financial crisis and National City Corp. are great Recession in the United States.

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National fiscal policy responses to the Great Recession

Beginning in 2008, many nations of the world enacted fiscal stimulus plans in response to the Great Recession. 2007–2008 financial crisis and National fiscal policy responses to the Great Recession are great Recession.

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National Review

National Review is an American conservative editorial magazine, focusing on news and commentary pieces on political, social, and cultural affairs.

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Nationalisation of Northern Rock

In 2008 the Northern Rock bank was nationalised by the British government, due to financial problems caused by the subprime mortgage crisis. 2007–2008 financial crisis and Nationalisation of Northern Rock are 2000s in economic history and 2008 in economic history.

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Nationalization

Nationalization (nationalisation in British English) is the process of transforming privately-owned assets into public assets by bringing them under the public ownership of a national government or state.

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NBC News

NBC News is the news division of the American broadcast television network NBC.

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Neoliberalism

Neoliberalism, also neo-liberalism, is both a political philosophy and a term used to signify the late-20th-century political reappearance of 19th-century ideas associated with free-market capitalism.

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Net capital rule

The uniform net capital rule is a rule created by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") in 1975 to regulate directly the ability of broker-dealers to meet their financial obligations to customers and other creditors.

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NetBank

NetBank, formerly named Atlanta Internet Bank (1996) and Net.B@nk (1998), was a direct bank.

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New Century Financial

New Century Financial Corporation was a real estate investment trust that originated mortgage loans in the United States through its operating subsidiaries, New Century Mortgage Corporation and Home123 Corporation.

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New York County District Attorney

The New York County District Attorney, also known as the Manhattan District Attorney, is the elected district attorney for New York County (Manhattan), New York.

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New York Newsday

New York Newsday was an American daily newspaper that primarily served New York City and was sold throughout the New York metropolitan area.

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Nick Penniman

Nick Penniman is an American nonprofit executive and journalist who serves as the co-founder and CEO of Issue One, a nonprofit organization the mission of which is to strengthen American democracy and government ethics.

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Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences

The Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, officially the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel (Sveriges riksbanks pris i ekonomisk vetenskap till Alfred Nobels minne), is an economics award funded by Sveriges Riksbank and administered by the Nobel Foundation.

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Nomi Prins

Nomi Prins is an American economist, author, journalist, and public speaker who writes about Wall Street and the US economy.

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Northern Rock

Northern Rock, formerly the Northern Rock Building Society, was a British bank.

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Notional amount

The notional amount (or notional principal amount or notional value) on a financial instrument is the nominal or face amount that is used to calculate payments made on that instrument.

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Nouriel Roubini

Nouriel Roubini (born March 29, 1958) is a Turkish-born Iranian-American economic consultant, economist, speaker and writer.

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NPR

National Public Radio (NPR, stylized as npr) is an American public broadcasting organization headquartered in Washington, D.C., with its NPR West headquarters in Culver City, California.

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Occupy movement

The Occupy movement was an international populist socio-political movement that expressed opposition to social and economic inequality and to the perceived lack of real democracy around the world. 2007–2008 financial crisis and Occupy movement are great Recession.

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ODI (think tank)

ODI is a global affairs think tank, founded in 1960.

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Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight

The Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight (OFHEO) was an agency within the Department of Housing and Urban Development of the United States of America.

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Office of Thrift Supervision

The Office of Thrift Supervision (OTS) was a United States federal agency under the Department of the Treasury that chartered, supervised, and regulated all federally chartered and state-chartered savings banks and savings and loans associations.

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OMX Iceland 15

The OMX Iceland 15 (formerly the ICEX15) is a defunct stock market index which consisted of a maximum of 15 companies listed on the OMX Iceland Stock Exchange with the highest market capitalization.

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Orders of magnitude (numbers)

This list contains selected positive numbers in increasing order, including counts of things, dimensionless quantities and probabilities.

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Over-the-counter (finance)

Over-the-counter (OTC) or off-exchange trading or pink sheet trading is done directly between two parties, without the supervision of an exchange.

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Oxford University Press

Oxford University Press (OUP) is the publishing house of the University of Oxford.

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Palgrave Macmillan

Palgrave Macmillan is a British academic and trade publishing company headquartered in the London Borough of Camden.

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Paradox of thrift

The paradox of thrift (or paradox of saving) is a paradox of economics.

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Paul Krugman

Paul Robin Krugman (born February 28, 1953) is an American economist who is the Distinguished Professor of Economics at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and a columnist for The New York Times.

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Paul Volcker

Paul Adolph Volcker Jr. (September 5, 1927 – December 8, 2019) was an American economist who served as the 12th chairman of the Federal Reserve from 1979 to 1987.

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Payroll tax

Payroll taxes are taxes imposed on employers or employees, and are usually calculated as a percentage of the salaries that employers pay their employees.

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PBS

The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) is an American public broadcaster and non-commercial, free-to-air television network based in Crystal City, Virginia.

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Peabody Awards

The George Foster Peabody Awards (or simply Peabody Awards or the Peabodys) program, named for the American businessman and philanthropist George Peabody, honor what are described as the most powerful, enlightening, and invigorating stories in all of television, radio, and online media.

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Penguin Group

Penguin Group is a British trade book publisher and part of Penguin Random House, which is owned by the German media conglomerate Bertelsmann.

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Perfect storm

A perfect storm is a meteorological event aggravated by a rare combination of circumstances.

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Pessimism porn

Pessimism porn is a neologism used to describe the alleged eschatological and survivalist thrill some people derive from pessimistic behavior, specifically predicting, reading and fantasizing about societal collapse through means such as the destruction of the world's economic system. 2007–2008 financial crisis and pessimism porn are great Recession.

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Peter J. Wallison

Peter J. Wallison (born June 6, 1941) is an American lawyer and the Arthur F. Burns Fellow in Financial Policy Studies at the American Enterprise Institute.

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Peter Schiff

Peter David Schiff (born March 23, 1963; nicknamed "Dr. Doom") is an American stockbroker, financial commentator, and radio personality.

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Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas

Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas is a French economist who has been the Chief Economist of the International Monetary Fund since 2022.

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PIGS (economics)

PIGS is a derogatory acronym that has been used to designate the economies of the Southern European countries of Portugal, Italy, Greece, and Spain.

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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, also known simply as the PG, is the largest newspaper serving metropolitan Pittsburgh in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania.

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Pluto Press

Pluto Press is a British independent book publisher based in London, founded in 1969.

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PNC Financial Services

The PNC Financial Services Group, Inc. is an American bank holding company and financial services corporation based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

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Pound sterling

Sterling (ISO code: GBP) is the currency of the United Kingdom and nine of its associated territories.

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Predatory lending

Predatory lending refers to unethical practices conducted by lending organizations during a loan origination process that are unfair, deceptive, or fraudulent.

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Preferred stock

Preferred stock (also called preferred shares, preference shares, or simply preferreds) is a component of share capital that may have any combination of features not possessed by common stock, including properties of both an equity and a debt instrument, and is generally considered a hybrid instrument.

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Presidency of George W. Bush

George W. Bush's tenure as the 43rd president of the United States began with his first inauguration on January 20, 2001, and ended on January 20, 2009.

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President of the European Central Bank

The president of the European Central Bank is the head of the European Central Bank (ECB), the main institution responsible for the management of the euro and monetary policy in the Eurozone of the European Union (EU) The current president of the European Central Bank is Christine Lagarde, previously the chair and managing director of the International Monetary Fund.

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Princeton University Press

Princeton University Press is an independent publisher with close connections to Princeton University.

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Principal–agent problem

The principal–agent problem refers to the conflict in interests and priorities that arises when one person or entity (the "agent") takes actions on behalf of another person or entity (the "principal").

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Private equity in the 2000s

Private equity in the 2000s represents one of the major growth periods in the history of private equity and venture capital. 2007–2008 financial crisis and private equity in the 2000s are 2000s in economic history.

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Project Syndicate

Project Syndicate is an international media organization that publishes and syndicates commentary and analysis on a variety of global topics.

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Proprietary trading

Proprietary trading (also known as prop trading) occurs when a trader trades stocks, bonds, currencies, commodities, their derivatives, or other financial instruments with the firm's own money (instead of using depositors' money) to make a profit for itself.

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Pulitzer Center

The Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting is an American news media organization established in 2006 that sponsors independent reporting on global issues that other media outlets are less willing or able to undertake on their own.

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Purchasing power parity

Purchasing power parity (PPP) is a measure of the price of specific goods in different countries and is used to compare the absolute purchasing power of the countries' currencies.

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Quantitative easing

Quantitative easing (QE) is a monetary policy action where a central bank purchases predetermined amounts of government bonds or other financial assets in order to stimulate economic activity.

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Racial inequality in the United States

In the United States, racial inequality refers to the social inequality and advantages and disparities that affect different races.

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Raghuram Rajan

Raghuram Govind Rajan (born 3 February 1963) is an Indian economist and the Katherine Dusak Miller Distinguished Service Professor of Finance at the University of Chicago's Booth School of Business.

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Rate of profit

In economics and finance, the profit rate is the relative profitability of an investment project, a capitalist enterprise or a whole capitalist economy.

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Ravi Batra

Raveendra Nath "Ravi" Batra (born June 27, 1943) is an Indian-American economist, author, and professor at Southern Methodist University.

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Real estate

Real estate is property consisting of land and the buildings on it, along with its natural resources such as growing crops (e.g. timber), minerals or water, and wild animals; immovable property of this nature; an interest vested in this (also) an item of real property, (more generally) buildings or housing in general.

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Real estate investment trust

A real estate investment trust (REIT, pronounced "reet") is a company that owns, and in most cases operates, income-producing real estate.

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Reason (magazine)

Reason is an American libertarian monthly magazine published by the Reason Foundation, with the tagline "Free Minds and Free Markets".

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Regnery Publishing

Regnery Publishing is a politically conservative book publisher based in Washington, D.C. The company was founded by Henry Regnery in 1947.

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Remittance

A remittance is a non-commercial transfer of money by a foreign worker, a member of a diaspora community, or a citizen with familial ties abroad, for household income in their home country or homeland.

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Reserve Bank of India

The Reserve Bank of India, abbreviated as RBI, is India's central bank and regulatory body responsible for regulation of the Indian banking system.

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Reserve Primary Fund

The Reserve Primary Fund was the first money market fund that was set up. 2007–2008 financial crisis and Reserve Primary Fund are great Recession.

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Reuters

Reuters is a news agency owned by Thomson Reuters.

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Ricardo J. Caballero

Ricardo Jorge Caballero (born 20 October 1959) is a Chilean macroeconomist who is the Ford International Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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Richard M. Bowen III

Richard M. Bowen III is an American banker who blew the whistle on mortgage fraud at Citigroup that helped trigger the sub-prime mortgage crisis.

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Richard S. Fuld Jr.

Richard Severin Fuld Jr. (born April 26, 1946) is an American banker best known as the final chairman and chief executive officer of investment bank Lehman Brothers. 2007–2008 financial crisis and Richard S. Fuld Jr. are great Recession.

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Risk management

Risk management is the identification, evaluation, and prioritization of risks followed by coordinated and economical application of resources to minimize, monitor, and control the probability or impact of unfortunate events or to maximize the realization of opportunities.

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Robert J. Shiller

Robert James Shiller (born March 29, 1946) is an American economist, academic, and author.

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Robert Reich

Robert Bernard Reich (born June 24, 1946) is an American professor, author, lawyer, and political commentator.

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Ronald Reagan

Ronald Wilson Reagan (February 6, 1911June 5, 2004) was an American politician and actor who served as the 40th president of the United States from 1981 to 1989.

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Routledge

Routledge is a British multinational publisher.

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Royal Bank of Scotland

The Royal Bank of Scotland (Banca Rìoghail na h-Alba) is a major retail and commercial bank in Scotland.

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S&P Global Ratings

S&P Global Ratings (previously Standard & Poor's and informally known as S&P) is an American credit rating agency (CRA) and a division of S&P Global that publishes financial research and analysis on stocks, bonds, and commodities.

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Savings and loan association

A savings and loan association (S&L), or thrift institution, is a financial institution that specializes in accepting savings deposits and making mortgage and other loans.

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Savings and loan crisis

The savings and loan crisis of the 1980s and 1990s (commonly dubbed the S&L crisis) was the failure of 32% (1,043 of the 3,234) of savings and loan associations (S&Ls) in the United States from 1986 to 1995. 2007–2008 financial crisis and savings and loan crisis are financial crises.

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Second mortgage

Second mortgages, commonly referred to as junior liens, are loans secured by a property in addition to the primary mortgage.

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Secondary mortgage market

The secondary mortgage market is the market for the sale of securities or bonds collateralized by the value of mortgage loans.

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Securitization

Securitization is the financial practice of pooling various types of contractual debt such as residential mortgages, commercial mortgages, auto loans or credit card debt obligations (or other non-debt assets which generate receivables) and selling their related cash flows to third party investors as securities, which may be described as bonds, pass-through securities, or collateralized debt obligations (CDOs).

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Seeking Alpha

Seeking Alpha is a crowd-sourced content service that publishes news on financial markets.

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September 11 attacks

The September 11 attacks, commonly known as 9/11, were four coordinated Islamist terrorist suicide attacks carried out by al-Qaeda against the United States in 2001. 2007–2008 financial crisis and September 11 attacks are Presidency of George W. Bush.

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SFAS 157

In September 2006, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) of the United States issued Statement of Financial Accounting Standards 157: Fair Value Measurements), which "defines fair value, establishes a framework for measuring fair value in generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP), and expands disclosures about fair value measurements." This statement is effective for financial reporting fiscal periods commencing after November 15, 2007 and the interim periods applicable.

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Shadow banking system

The shadow banking system is a term for the collection of non-bank financial intermediaries (NBFIs) that legally provide services similar to traditional commercial banks but outside normal banking regulations.

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Small Business Administration

The United States Small Business Administration (SBA) is an independent agency of the United States government that provides support to entrepreneurs and small businesses.

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Smoot–Hawley Tariff Act

The Tariff Act of 1930 (codified at), commonly known as the Smoot–Hawley Tariff or Hawley–Smoot Tariff, was a law that implemented protectionist trade policies in the United States.

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Social Science Research Council

The Social Science Research Council (SSRC) is a US-based, independent, international nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing research in the social sciences and related disciplines.

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Social Science Research Network

The Social Science Research Network (SSRN) is a repository for preprints devoted to the rapid dissemination of scholarly research in the social sciences, humanities, life sciences, and health sciences, among others.

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Solvency

Solvency, in finance or business, is the degree to which the current assets of an individual or entity exceed the current liabilities of that individual or entity.

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Sony Pictures Classics

Sony Pictures Classics Inc. is an American film production and distribution company that is a division of Sony Pictures.

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Southern Illinois University Press

Southern Illinois University Press or SIU Press, founded in 1956, is a university press located in Carbondale, Illinois, owned and operated by Southern Illinois University.

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Speaker of the United States House of Representatives

The speaker of the United States House of Representatives, commonly known as the speaker of the House, is the presiding officer of the United States House of Representatives.

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Spiegel & Grau

Spiegel & Grau was originally a publishing imprint of Penguin Random House founded by Celina Spiegel and Julie Grau in 2005.

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Stanford Law School

Stanford Law School (SLS) is the law school of Stanford University, a private research university near Palo Alto, California.

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Stanford University

Stanford University (officially Leland Stanford Junior University) is a private research university in Stanford, California.

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Stated income loan

A stated income loan is a mortgage where the lender does not verify the borrower's income by looking at their pay stubs, W-2 (employee income) forms, income tax returns, or other records.

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Steny Hoyer

Steny Hamilton Hoyer (born June 14, 1939) is an American politician and retired attorney who has served as the U.S. representative for since 1981.

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Steve Keen

Steve Keen (born 28 March 1953) is an Australian economist and author.

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Stimulus (economics)

In economics, stimulus refers to attempts to use monetary policy or fiscal policy (or stabilization policy in general) to stimulate the economy.

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Stock market crashes in India

Since the beginning of the Bombay stock exchange, stock markets in India, particularly the Bombay Stock Exchange and National Stock Exchange of India have seen a number of booms as well as crashes. 2007–2008 financial crisis and stock market crashes in India are stock market crashes.

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Structured investment vehicle

A structured investment vehicle (SIV) is a non-bank financial institution established to earn a credit spread between the longer-term assets held in its portfolio and the shorter-term liabilities it issues.

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Subprime crisis impact timeline

The subprime mortgage crisis impact timeline lists dates relevant to the creation of a United States housing bubble and the 2005 housing bubble burst (or market correction) and the subprime mortgage crisis which developed during 2007 and 2008. 2007–2008 financial crisis and subprime crisis impact timeline are 2000s in economic history.

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Subprime lending

In finance, subprime lending (also referred to as near-prime, subpar, non-prime, and second-chance lending) is the provision of loans to people in the United States who may have difficulty maintaining the repayment schedule.

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Subprime mortgage crisis

The American subprime mortgage crisis was a multinational financial crisis that occurred between 2007 and 2010 that contributed to the 2007–2008 global financial crisis. 2007–2008 financial crisis and subprime mortgage crisis are 2007 in economic history, 2008 in economic history and financial crises.

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Supply chain

A supply chain, sometimes expressed as a "supply-chain", is a complex logistics system that consists of facilities that convert raw materials into finished products and distribute them to end consumers or end customers.

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Swiss franc

The Swiss franc, or simply the franc (Swiss German; franc; franco; franc), is the currency and legal tender of Switzerland and Liechtenstein.

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Synthetic CDO

A synthetic CDO is a variation of a CDO (collateralized debt obligation) that generally uses credit default swaps and other derivatives to obtain its investment goals.

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Temporary Liquidity Guarantee Program

The Temporary Liquidity Guarantee Program (TLGP) was a program administered by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) from 2008 to 2012 in the aftermath of the 2007–2008 financial crisis.

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Term Asset-Backed Securities Loan Facility

The Term Asset-Backed Securities Loan Facility (TALF) is a program created by the U.S. Federal Reserve (the Fed) to spur consumer credit lending.

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Term auction facility

The Term Auction Facility (TAF) was a temporary program managed by the United States Federal Reserve designed to "address elevated pressures in short-term funding markets." Under the program the Fed auctions collateralized loans with terms of 28 and 84 days to depository institutions that are "in generally sound financial condition" and "are expected to remain so over the terms of TAF loans." Eligible collateral is the same as that accepted for discount window loans and includes a wide range of financial assets.

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The American Prospect

The American Prospect is a daily online and bimonthly print American political and public policy magazine dedicated to American modern liberalism and progressivism.

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The Atlas Society

The Atlas Society (TAS) is an American 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that promotes the philosophy of Ayn Rand.

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The Big Mo

The Big Mo ("Big Momentum") is behavioral momentum that operates on a large scale.

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The Big Mo (book)

The Big Mo: Why Momentum Rules Our World is a book by Mark Roeder, first published by HarperCollins in 2011 It explores the phenomenon of large-scale momentum and how it impacts society.

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The Big Short

The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine is a nonfiction book by Michael Lewis about the build-up of the United States housing bubble during the 2000s. 2007–2008 financial crisis and the Big Short are 2000s in economic history.

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The Big Short (film)

The Big Short is a 2015 American biographical crime comedy-drama film directed and co-written by Adam McKay.

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The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable

The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable is a 2007 book by Nassim Nicholas Taleb, who is a former options trader.

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The Carlyle Group

The Carlyle Group Inc. is an American multinational private equity, alternative asset management and financial services corporation based in the United States with $426 billion of assets under management.

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The Daily Telegraph

The Daily Telegraph, known online and elsewhere as The Telegraph, is a British daily broadsheet newspaper published in London by Telegraph Media Group and distributed in the United Kingdom and internationally.

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The Downfall of Capitalism and Communism

The Downfall of Capitalism and Communism is a book by Ravi Batra in the field of historical evolution, first published in 1978.

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The Economic Times

The Economic Times is an Indian English-language business-focused daily newspaper.

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The Economist

The Economist is a British weekly newspaper published in printed magazine format and digitally.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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The Jakarta Post

The Jakarta Post is a daily English-language newspaper in Indonesia.

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The Motley Fool

The Motley Fool is a private financial and investing advice company based in Alexandria, Virginia.

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The National Law Journal

The National Law Journal (NLJ) is an American legal periodical founded in 1978.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.

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The New York Times Best Seller list

The New York Times Best Seller list is widely considered the preeminent list of best-selling books in the United States.

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The New York Times Magazine

The New York Times Magazine is an American Sunday magazine included with the Sunday edition of The New York Times.

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The New Yorker

The New Yorker is an American magazine featuring journalism, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons, and poetry.

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The Portsmouth Herald

The Portsmouth Herald (and Seacoast Weekend) is a six-day daily newspaper serving greater Portsmouth, New Hampshire.

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The Sydney Morning Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald (SMH) is a daily tabloid newspaper published in Sydney, Australia, and owned by Nine.

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The Wall Street Journal

The Wall Street Journal (WSJ), also referred to simply as the Journal, is an American newspaper based in New York City, with a focus on business and finance.

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The Washington Post

The Washington Post, locally known as "the Post" and, informally, WaPo or WP, is an American daily newspaper published in Washington, D.C., the national capital.

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TheStreet

TheStreet is a financial news and financial literacy website.

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This American Life

This American Life (TAL) is an American weekly hour-long radio program produced in collaboration with Chicago Public Media and hosted by Ira Glass.

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Time (magazine)

Time (stylized in all caps as TIME) is an American news magazine based in New York City.

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Timothy Geithner

Timothy Franz Geithner (born August 18, 1961) is an American former central banker who served as the 75th United States Secretary of the Treasury under President Barack Obama from 2009 to 2013. 2007–2008 financial crisis and Timothy Geithner are great Recession.

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Tom Woods

Thomas Ernest Woods Jr. (born August 1, 1972) is an American author, podcast host, and libertarian commentator who is currently a senior fellow at the Mises Institute.

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Too big to fail

"Too big to fail" (TBTF) is a theory in banking and finance that asserts that certain corporations, particularly financial institutions, are so large and so interconnected that their failure would be disastrous to the greater economic system, and therefore should be supported by government when they face potential failure. 2007–2008 financial crisis and too big to fail are great Recession.

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Too Big to Fail (film)

Too Big to Fail is a 2011 American biographical drama television film directed by Curtis Hanson and written by Peter Gould, based on Andrew Ross Sorkin's 2009 non-fiction book Too Big to Fail.

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Toxic asset

A toxic asset is a financial asset that has fallen in value significantly and for which there is no longer a functioning market.

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Tranche

In structured finance, a tranche is one of a number of related securities offered as part of the same transaction.

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Transaction account

A transaction account, also called a checking account, chequing account, current account, demand deposit account, or share account at credit unions, is a deposit account or bank account held at a bank or other financial institution.

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Troubled Asset Relief Program

The Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) is a program of the United States government to purchase toxic assets and equity from financial institutions to strengthen its financial sector that was passed by Congress and signed into law by President George W. Bush. 2007–2008 financial crisis and Troubled Asset Relief Program are systemic risk.

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Truthout

Truthout is an American non-profit news organization which describes itself as "dedicated to providing independent reporting and commentary on a diverse range of social justice issues".

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Type Media Center

Type Media Center (formerly The Nation Institute) is a nonprofit media organization that was previously associated with The Nation magazine.

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U.S. News & World Report

U.S. News & World Report (USNWR, US NEWS) is an American media company publishing news, consumer advice, rankings, and analysis.

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U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is an independent agency of the United States federal government, created in the aftermath of the Wall Street Crash of 1929.

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UBS

UBS Group AG is a multinational investment bank and financial services company founded and based in Switzerland.

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United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Northwestern Europe, off the coast of the continental mainland.

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United States

The United States of America (USA or U.S.A.), commonly known as the United States (US or U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America.

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United States census

The United States census (plural censuses or census) is a census that is legally mandated by the Constitution of the United States.

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United States Census Bureau

The United States Census Bureau (USCB), officially the Bureau of the Census, is a principal agency of the U.S. Federal Statistical System, responsible for producing data about the American people and economy.

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United States Congress

The United States Congress, or simply Congress, is the legislature of the federal government of the United States.

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United States Congressional Joint Economic Committee

The Joint Economic Committee (JEC) is one of four standing joint committees of the U.S. Congress. 2007–2008 financial crisis and United States Congressional Joint Economic Committee are economy of the United States.

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United States Department of Housing and Urban Development

The United States Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) is one of the executive departments of the U.S. federal government.

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United States Department of Justice

The United States Department of Justice (DOJ), also known as the Justice Department, is a federal executive department of the United States government tasked with the enforcement of federal law and administration of justice in the United States.

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United States Department of the Treasury

The Department of the Treasury (USDT) is the national treasury and finance department of the federal government of the United States, where it serves as an executive department.

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United States dollar

The United States dollar (symbol: $; currency code: USD; also abbreviated US$ to distinguish it from other dollar-denominated currencies; referred to as the dollar, U.S. dollar, American dollar, or colloquially buck) is the official currency of the United States and several other countries.

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United States House Committee on Financial Services

The United States House Committee on Financial Services, also referred to as the House Banking Committee and previously known as the Committee on Banking and Currency, is the committee of the United States House of Representatives that oversees the entire financial services industry, including the securities, insurance, banking and housing industries.

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United States House Committee on Oversight and Accountability

The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is the main investigative committee of the United States House of Representatives.

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United States House of Representatives

The United States House of Representatives is the lower chamber of the United States Congress, with the Senate being the upper chamber.

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United States Patent and Trademark Office

The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) is an agency in the U.S. Department of Commerce that serves as the national patent office and trademark registration authority for the United States.

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United States Secretary of the Treasury

The United States secretary of the treasury is the head of the United States Department of the Treasury, and is the chief financial officer of the federal government of the United States.

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United States Senate

The United States Senate is the upper chamber of the United States Congress.

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United States Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs

The United States Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs (formerly the Committee on Banking and Currency), also known as the Senate Banking Committee, has jurisdiction over matters related to banks and banking, price controls, deposit insurance, export promotion and controls, federal monetary policy, financial aid to commerce and industry, issuance of redemption of notes, currency and coinage, public and private housing, urban development, mass transit and government contracts.

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United States Senate Homeland Security Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations

The Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations (PSI), stood up in March 1941 as the "Truman Committee," is the oldest subcommittee of the United States Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs (formerly the Committee on Government Operations).

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United States Treasury security

United States Treasury securities, also called Treasuries or Treasurys, are government debt instruments issued by the United States Department of the Treasury to finance government spending, in addition to taxation.

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC, UNC-Chapel Hill, North Carolina, Chapel Hill, or simply Carolina) is a public research university in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

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USA Today

USA Today (often stylized in all caps) is an American daily middle-market newspaper and news broadcasting company.

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Viking Press

Viking Press (formally Viking Penguin, also listed as Viking Books) is an American publishing company owned by Penguin Random House.

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Virgin Books

Virgin Books is a British book publisher 90% owned by the publishing group Random House, and 10% owned by Virgin Group, the company originally set up by Richard Branson as a record company.

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Volcker Rule

The Volcker Rule is section of the Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act. 2007–2008 financial crisis and Volcker Rule are systemic risk.

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Vox Media

Vox Media, Inc. is an American mass media company founded in Washington, D.C. with operational headquarters in Lower Manhattan, New York City.

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W. W. Norton & Company

W.

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Wachovia

Wachovia was a diversified financial services company based in Charlotte, North Carolina.

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Wall Street and the Financial Crisis: Anatomy of a Financial Collapse

Wall Street and the Financial Crisis: Anatomy of a Financial Collapse is a report on the financial crisis of 2007–2008 issued on April 13, 2011 by the United States Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations.

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Warren Buffett

Warren Edward Buffett (born August 30, 1930) is an American businessman, investor, and philanthropist who currently serves as the chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway.

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Washington Mutual

Washington Mutual, Inc. (often abbreviated to WaMu) was an American savings bank holding company based in Seattle. 2007–2008 financial crisis and Washington Mutual are 2000s in economic history.

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Washington State Department of Financial Institutions

Washington State Department of Financial Institutions is an agency of the State of Washington charged with regulating financial institutions including banks, and prevention of financial fraud such as bank fraud, credit card fraud and payday loan issues.

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Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly known as Washington or D.C., is the capital city and federal district of the United States.

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Wells Fargo

Wells Fargo & Company is an American multinational financial services company with a significant global presence.

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Wharton School

The Wharton School (or UPenn Wharton) is the business school of the University of Pennsylvania (UPenn), a private Ivy League research university in Philadelphia.

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Whistleblowing

Whistleblowing (also whistle-blowing or whistle blowing) is the activity of a person, often an employee, revealing information about activity within a private or public organization that is deemed illegal, immoral, illicit, unsafe or fraudulent.

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White House

The White House is the official residence and workplace of the president of the United States.

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Whitehouse.gov

whitehouse.gov (also simply known as wh.gov) is the official website of the White House and is managed by the Office of Digital Strategy.

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Wiley (publisher)

John Wiley & Sons, Inc., commonly known as Wiley, is an American multinational publishing company that focuses on academic publishing and instructional materials.

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Wired (magazine)

Wired (stylized in all caps) is a monthly American magazine, published in print and online editions, that focuses on how emerging technologies affect culture, the economy, and politics.

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Working Group on Financial Markets

The President's Working Group on Financial Markets, known colloquially as the Plunge Protection Team, or "(PPT)" was created by Executive Order 12631,, which appears and purports to be a copy of the original: signed on March 18, 1988, by United States President Ronald Reagan. 2007–2008 financial crisis and Working Group on Financial Markets are economy of the United States.

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World Scientific

World Scientific Publishing is an academic publisher of scientific, technical, and medical books and journals headquartered in Singapore.

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Wynne Godley

Wynne Godley (26 September 192613 May 2010) was an economist famous for his pessimism about the British economy and his criticism of the British government.

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Yale University Press

Yale University Press is the university press of Yale University.

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Yield curve

In finance, the yield curve is a graph which depicts how the yields on debt instruments – such as bonds – vary as a function of their years remaining to maturity.

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1997 Asian financial crisis

The 1997 Asian financial crisis was a period of financial crisis that gripped much of East and Southeast Asia during the late 1990s. 2007–2008 financial crisis and 1997 Asian financial crisis are financial crises and stock market crashes.

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1998 Russian financial crisis

The Russian financial crisis (also called the ruble crisis or the Russian flu) began in Russia on 17 August 1998. 2007–2008 financial crisis and 1998 Russian financial crisis are financial crises and stock market crashes.

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2000s commodities boom

The 2000s commodities boom or the commodities super cycle was the rise of many physical commodity prices (such as those of food, oil, metals, chemicals and fuels) during the early 21st century (2000–2014), following the Great Commodities Depression of the 1980s and 1990s. 2007–2008 financial crisis and 2000s commodities boom are 2000s in economic history.

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2000s United States housing bubble

The 2000s United States housing bubble or house price boom or 2000s housing cycle was a sharp run up and subsequent collapse of house asset prices affecting over half of the U.S. states. 2007–2008 financial crisis and 2000s United States housing bubble are 2000s in economic history.

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2008 Greek riots

The 2008 Greek rebellion started on 6 December 2008, when Alexandros Grigoropoulos (Αλέξανδρος Γρηγορόπουλος), a 15-year-old Greek student, was killed by a special officer in Exarcheia district of central Athens.

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2008 United Kingdom bank rescue package

In the period September 2007 to December 2009, during the Global Financial Crisis, the UK government intervened financially to support the UK banking sector, and four UK banks in particular. 2007–2008 financial crisis and 2008 United Kingdom bank rescue package are 2008 in economic history and great Recession in the United Kingdom.

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2008–2009 Keynesian resurgence

Following the global 2007–2008 financial crisis, there was a worldwide resurgence of interest in Keynesian economics among prominent economists and policy makers. 2007–2008 financial crisis and 2008–2009 Keynesian resurgence are 2000s in economic history and great Recession.

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2008–2011 Icelandic financial crisis

The Icelandic financial crisis was a major economic and political event in Iceland between 2008 and 2010. 2007–2008 financial crisis and 2008–2011 Icelandic financial crisis are 2000s in economic history, 2008 in economic history and financial crises.

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2009 G20 London summit protests

The 2009 G20 London summit protests occurred in the days around the 2 April 2009 G20 London summit.

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2009 Icelandic financial crisis protests

The 2009–2011 Icelandic financial crisis protests, also referred to as the Kitchenware, Kitchen Implement or Pots and Pans Revolution (Icelandic: Búsáhaldabyltingin), occurred in the wake of the Icelandic financial crisis.

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2009 May Day protests

The 2009 May Day protests were a series of international protests that took place across Europe, Asia and in the other parts of the world due to the 2007–2008 financial crisis and the resulting Great Recession.

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2010 United States foreclosure crisis

The 2010 United States foreclosure crisis, sometimes referred to as Foreclosure-gate or Foreclosuregate, refers to a widespread epidemic of improper foreclosures initiated by large banks and other lenders. 2007–2008 financial crisis and 2010 United States foreclosure crisis are 2000s in economic history, economy of the United States, financial crises and great Recession in the United States.

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2012 May Day protests

The 2012 May Day protests were a series of international protests that took place worldwide on 1 May 2012 over the then ongoing global economic crisis.

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83rd Academy Awards

The 83rd Academy Awards ceremony, organized by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), honored the best films of 2010 in the United States and took place on February 27, 2011, at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles beginning at 5:30 p.m. PST (8:30 p.m. EST).

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See also

2007 in economic history

Economic bubbles

Great Recession in the United Kingdom

Great Recession in the United States

Premiership of Gordon Brown

September 2008 events in North America

Systemic risk

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007–2008_financial_crisis

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