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  2. Economic collapse - Wikipedia

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    Economic collapse, also called economic meltdown, is any of a broad range of poor 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 ...

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

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    Chicago Illinois July 25, 2014: Providence Bank, LLC 72.9 15 NBRS Financial Rising Sun Maryland October 17, 2014: Howard Bank 188.2 16 The National Republic Bank of Chicago Chicago Illinois October 24, 2014: State Bank of Texas 954.4 17 Frontier Bank, FSB D/B/A El Paseo Bank Palm Desert California November 7, 2014: Bank of Southern California ...

  4. 2013 United States debt-ceiling crisis - Wikipedia

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    On February 4, 2013, President Obama signed into law the "No Budget, No Pay Act of 2013", which suspended the U.S. debt ceiling through May 18, 2013. The bill was passed in the Senate one week previously by a vote of 64–34, with all "no" votes from Republican senators, [ 13 ] who were critical of the lack of spending cuts that accompanied an ...

  5. 2013 May Day protests - Wikipedia

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    The 2013 May Day protests were a series of international protests involving hundreds of thousands of people that took place worldwide on May Day (1 May 2013) over the ongoing global economic crisis including austerity measures and poor working conditions. 2013 May Day protests report by Voice of America.

  6. Chicago plan - Wikipedia

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    The Chicago Plan was a comprehensive plan to reform the monetary and banking systems in the United States introduced by University of Chicago economists in 1933. The Great Depression had been caused in part by excessive private bank lending , so the plan proposed to eliminate private bank money creation through fractional reserve lending .

  7. 2013 - Wikipedia

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    2013 was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2013th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 13th year of the 3rd millennium and the 21st century, and the 4th year of the 2010s decade.

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

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    Some of the key economic events during the collapse of the Japanese asset price bubble include the 1997 Asian financial crisis and the dot-com bubble. In addition, more recent economic events, such as the 2007–2008 financial crisis and August 2011 stock markets fall have prolonged this period. Black Wednesday: 16 Sep 1992 UK

  9. Freefall: America, Free Markets, and the Sinking of the World ...

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    The title of the book points at the sharp decline in stock prices following the bankruptcy of the investment bank Lehman Brothers in September, 2008. Meanwhile, its subtitle reveals Stiglitz's conviction that free markets are at the bottom of the crisis, as he makes deregulation responsible for the rise of the shadow banking system, over-leveraged banks and subprime mortgages.