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Ben Bernanke, Chairman of the Federal Reserve System, argues that Congress must pass legislation to authorize any continued intervention by the Fed or the Treasury. With the availability of credit drying up, Paulson's plan is to buy the toxic assets from the banks to take the risk off their books and increase their cash reserves.
Inside Job is a 2010 American documentary film, directed by Charles Ferguson, about the 2007–2008 financial crisis.Ferguson, who began researching in 2008, [3] said the film is about "the systemic corruption of the United States by the financial services industry and the consequences of that systemic corruption", [4] amongst them conflicts of interest of academic research, which led to ...
Headquarters of AIG, an insurance company rescued by the United States government during the subprime mortgage crisis "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 ...
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Look, I think fundamentally Ben Bernanke has done a marvelous job the last five years. Yes, they missed a lot of stuff heading into the crisis. They didn't see beyond the horizon of how bad it ...
At the height of the 2008 financial crisis, Bush said: “If money isn’t loosened up, this sucker could go down!” Don't miss Commercial real estate has beaten the stock market for 25 years ...
Bernanke has been subjected to criticism concerning the 2007–2008 financial crisis. According to The New York Times, Bernanke "has been attacked for failing to foresee the financial crisis, for bailing out Wall Street, and, most recently, for injecting an additional $600 billion into the banking system to give the slow recovery a boost." [53]
The Big Short is a 2015 American biographical comedy-drama film directed by Adam McKay and co-written by McKay and Charles Randolph.The film is based on the 2010 book The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine by Michael Lewis, and shows how the 2007–2008 financial crisis was triggered by the United States housing bubble. [4]