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Table of Contents
1. Introduction Global Crisis
2. Why? Economic Response to the Crisis
INTRODUCTION
Global Crisis
March, 2008
Bear Sterns
Bailout
September, 2007
Federal Slashes Rates
August, 2007
Subprime Mortgage
problems Go Global
September, 2008
Lehman Brothers Collapse
January, 2008
Real Estate Fears
WHY?
Shoddy underwriting
Negligence on the part
of the credit rating
agencies
Lax government
oversight
Sub-prime financial
system
Structural Causes
GlassSteagal Acts
Investment
Bank
Commercial
Bank
Gramm-
Growing
Capital
LeachBliley Act
Investment
Bank
=
Commercial
Bank
Financial Liberalization
Bubble
Economy
Emerging
economies
Real-estate
industry:
Sub-prime
Mortgage loan
Derivatives
Products: MBS
Structural Flaws
-
- EU & Japan
Structural changes in product & labor markets.
- China
Sterilized intervention in the money market.
HOW?
2.
Stimulus Plan
Known as the
American Recovery and
Reinvestment Act
(Feb09) $787 Billion
Infrastructure, Health
Care, Energy,
Education, Social
Security
Govt deficit calculated
to 1.84 Trillion. (NYTimes
May 11, 2009)
For addtional information: The End of Chimerica, HBS. Online at: http://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Publication%20Files/10037.pdf
Source: Lessons of the Financial Crisis. CFR Special Report No. 45 March 2009
Source: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financetopics/g20-summit/5094824/G20-summit-Gordon-Brown-unveils-1.1trn-globalrecession-fight-back.html
Quantitative Easing
Lower interest rates encourage
people to spend, not save. But when
interest rates can go no lower, a
central banks only option is to pump
money into the economy directly []
this is by buying financial assets such
as government and corporate bonds.
BBC News Q&A: Quantitative Easing.
In advanced economies, scope for
easing monetary policy further should
be used aggressively to counter
deflation risks.
World Economic Outlook, April 2009.
CONCLUSION
Whats Next?
Whats Next?
2) Managed Capitalism:
Whats Next?
Whats Next?
Whats Next?
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