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  2. List of economic crises - Wikipedia

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    Coin exchange crisis of 692.Byzantine emperor Justinian II refuses to accept tribute from the Umayyad Caliphate with new Arab gold coins for fear of exposing double counting in the Byzantine financial system (actual weight less, than nominal quantity), which leads to the Battle of Sebastopolis and the revolt of taxpayers who burned financial officials in a copper bull.

  3. List of banks acquired or bankrupted during the Great Recession

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    This is a list of notable financial institutions worldwide that were severely affected by the Great Recession centered in 2007–2009. The list includes banks (including savings and loan associations, commercial banks and investment banks), building societies and insurance companies that were: taken over or merged with another financial ...

  4. Financial crisis - Wikipedia

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    1637: Bursting of tulip mania in the Netherlands – while tulip mania is popularly reported as an example of a financial crisis, and was a speculative bubble, modern scholarship holds that its broader economic impact was limited to negligible, and that it did not precipitate a financial crisis.

  5. List of banking crises - Wikipedia

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    A banking crisis is a financial crisis that affects banking activity. Banking crises include bank runs, which affect single banks; banking panics, which affect many banks; and systemic banking crises, in which a country experiences many defaults and financial institutions and corporations face great difficulties repaying contracts. [1]

  6. List of stock market crashes and bear markets - Wikipedia

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    On September 16, 2008, failures of large financial institutions in the United States, due primarily to exposure of securities of packaged subprime loans and credit default swaps issued to insure these loans and their issuers, rapidly devolved into a global crisis resulting in a number of bank failures in Europe and sharp reductions in the value ...

  7. List of sovereign debt crises - Wikipedia

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    Baring crisis [23] 1982: Latin American debt crisis [23] 1988–89: Latin American debt crisis [23] 2001: Following years of instability, the Argentine economic crisis (1999–2002) came to a head, and a new government announced it could not meet its public debt obligations. [23] 2005–16: Argentine debt restructuring. 2014 [24] [25] 2020 [26 ...

  8. List of corporate collapses and scandals - Wikipedia

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    Following the financial crisis of 2007–2008, and allegations over excessive executive pay, demand for products dropped. Anglo Irish Bank: Ireland: 15 Jan 2009: Banking: After the financial crisis of 2007–2008, the bank was forced to be nationalised by the Irish government. Arcandor: Germany: 9 June 2009: Retail

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

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    On average, between 1980 and 1994, a US bank failed every three days. The pace of bankruptcies peaked immediately after the 2008 financial crisis. [1] The 2007–2008 financial crisis led to many bank failures in the United States. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) closed 465 failed banks from 2008 to 2012. [2]