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The Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008, also known as the " bank bailout of 2008 " or the " Wall Street bailout ", was a United States federal law enacted during the Great Recession, which created federal programs to "bail out" failing financial institutions and banks. The bill was proposed by Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, passed ...
A bailout is the provision of financial help to a corporation or country which otherwise would be on the brink of bankruptcy.A bailout differs from the term bail-in (coined in 2010) under which the bondholders or depositors of global systemically important financial institutions (G-SIFIs) are forced to participate in the recapitalization process but taxpayers are not.
The list of sovereign debt crises involves the inability of independent countries to meet its liabilities as they become due. These include: A sovereign default, where a government suspends debt repayments. A debt restructuring plan, where the government agrees with other countries, or unilaterally reduces its debt repayments.
The failure of IndyMac Bank on July 11, 2008, was the fourth largest bank failure in United States history up until the crisis precipitated even larger failures, [420] and the second largest failure of a regulated thrift. [421] IndyMac Bank's parent corporation was IndyMac Bancorp until the FDIC seized IndyMac Bank. [422]
The post-2008 Irish banking crisis was when a number of Irish financial institutions faced almost imminent collapse due to insolvency during the Great Recession. In response, the Irish government instigated a €64 billion bank bailout. This then led to a number of unexpected revelations about the business affairs of some banks and business people.
The government interventions during the subprime mortgage crisis were a response to the 2007–2009 subprime mortgage crisis and resulted in a variety of government bailouts that were implemented to stabilize the financial system during late 2007 and early 2008. Governments intervened in the United States and United Kingdom and several other ...
These discussions failed, and Lehman filed a Chapter 11 petition that remains the largest bankruptcy filing in U.S. history, involving more than US$600 billion in assets. The bankruptcy triggered a 4.5% one-day drop in the Dow Jones Industrial Average, then the largest decline since the attacks of September 11, 2001. It signaled a limit to the ...
2008–2009 Belgian financial crisis. The 2008–2009 Belgian financial crisis is a major financial crisis that hit Belgium from mid-2008 onwards. Two of the country's largest banks – Fortis and Dexia – started to face severe problems, exacerbated by the financial problems hitting other banks around the world. The value of their stocks plunged.