The Origin of Financial Crises by George Cooper: 9780307473455 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books (2024)

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How did the financial crisis come about? ›

During the GFC, a downturn in the US housing market was a catalyst for a financial crisis that spread from the United States to the rest of the world through linkages in the global financial system. Many banks around the world incurred large losses and relied on government support to avoid bankruptcy.

A financial crisis refers to a severe disruption or breakdown in the financial system of a country or even globally. It is typically characterized by a widespread panic, sharp decline in asset prices, insolvency or bankruptcy of financial institutions, and a general loss of confidence in the financial system.

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This book has a prescription for the prevention of a financial meltdown but before that, it explores how under-regulated trading between European and American banks led to the 2008 financial crisis.

Everybody involved with the 2007–2008 financial crisis is partly to blame for the Great Recession: the government, for a lack of oversight; consumers, for reckless borrowing; and financial institutions, for predatory lending and unscrupulous bundling and selling of mortgage-‐backed securities.

In this survey, they trace the history of financial crisis back to sovereign defaults – default on public debt, – which were the form of crisis prior to the 18th century and continue, then and now causing private bank failures; crises since the 18th century feature both public debt default and private debt default.

The Great Depression lasted from 1929 to 1939 and was the worst economic downturn in history.

The root cause was excessive mortgage lending to borrowers who normally would not qualify for a home loan, which greatly increased risk to the lender. Lenders were willing to take this risk, as they could simply package the loans into an instrument they sold, passing the risk on to investors.

Contributing factors to a financial crisis include systemic failures, unanticipated or uncontrollable human behavior, incentives to take too much risk, regulatory absence or failures, or contagions that amount to a virus-like spread of problems from one institution or country to the next.

The Washington DC-based institute this week nudged its global growth outlook slightly higher to 3.2% in 2024 and projects the same rate in 2025. “When we do the risk assessment around that baseline, the chances that we would have something like a global recession is fairly minimal.

In the United States, the Great Recession was a severe financial crisis combined with a deep recession. While the recession officially lasted from December 2007 to June 2009, it took many years for the economy to recover to pre-crisis levels of employment and output.

Did anyone benefit from the 2008 financial crisis? ›

One group that profited from the 2008 financial crisis was large banks and financial institutions . These institutions were able to take advantage of the crisis by receiving government bailouts and acquiring struggling banks and assets at discounted prices .

Contrary to investor expectations, several growth stocks including Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL), Amazon.com Inc (NASDAQ:AMZN), and Netflix Inc. (NASDAQ:NFLX) grew during the 2008 recession, so investors don't have to ignore growth stocks to be conservative.

It began with the housing market bubble, created by an overwhelming load of mortgage-backed securities that bundled high-risk loans. Reckless lending led to unprecedented numbers of loans in default; bundled together, the losses led many financial institutions to fail and require a governmental bailout.

Improper mortgage lending practices played a large role in the crisis. Mortgage lenders relaxed their lending standards and handed out interest-only and adjustable-rate mortgages to borrowers who were unable to repay.

The irresponsible lending on the part of creditors, mismanagement on the part of debtors, and the worldwide recession all contributed to the debt crisis of the early 1980s. Developing countries were hurt the most in the worldwide recession.