Causes of the 2008 Financial Crisis

In 2008, the world experienced a tremendous financial crisis which rooted from the U.S housing market; moreover, it is considered by many economists as one of the worst recession since the Great Depression in 1930s. After posing a huge effect on the U.S economy, the financial crisis expanded to Europe and the rest of the world. It brought governments down, ruined economies, crumble financial corporations and impoverish individual lives. For example, the financial crisis has resulted in the collapse of massive financial institutions such as Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, Lehman Brother and AIG. These collapses not only influence own countries but also international area. Hence, the intervention of governments by changing and

Many people today would consider the 2008, United States financial crisis a simple “malfunction” or “mistake”, but it was nothing close to that. Contrary to what many believe, renowned economists and financial advisors regarded the financial crisis of 2007 and 2008 to be the most devastating crisis since the Great Depression of the 1930’s. To make matters worse, the decline in the economy expanded nationwide, resulting in the recession of 2007 to 2009 (Brue). David Einhorn, CEO of GreenHorn Capital, even goes as far as to say "What strikes me the most about the recent credit market crisis is how fast the world is trying to go back to business as usual. In my view, the crisis wasn't an accident. We didn't get unlucky. The crisis came

The Global Financial Crisis or 2008 financial crisis is considered by many economists to have been the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression of the 1930s. It resulted in the threat of total collapse of large financial institutions, the bailout of banks by national governments, and downturns in stock markets around the world.

In this essay, I will briefly explain what happened during the financial crisis of 2007-09, and also discuss the contribution of the government to the financial crisis.

The Great Recession of 2008 was the most devastating recession since the Great Depression itself. To further investigate what caused this, we interviewed our mother Marianne Massinger. She has worked in the finance industry for many years now, and she was able to witness and experience the effects of the recession personally. Overall, the information found through our research on the Recession of 2008 closely lined up with the accounts given by our mother.

Levin, Carl, and Tom Coburn. United States. United States Senate. Wall Street and the Financial Crisis: Anatomy of a Financial Collapse. Washington: Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, 2010.

All of these components manufactured the financial crisis. Right after the crisis, banks were strict on lending to households and businesses. The decline in lending caused prices in these markets to trickle down, which means those that have taken a lot, had to contemplate on the rising prices and had to give up their estates in order to repay their loans. House prices became cheaper and everything burst. This lead banks to panic and cut their lending even more. A downward spiral resulted from all of this, and the economy went into recession.

Beginning in August 2007, cracks in the economic system led to the United States’ second worst economic and financial crisis in history. The biggest crisis of all being the Great Depression. Stock markets crashed and banks lost hundreds of billions of dollars. The economy plummeted and suffered traumatic loss. After two years of hardship, the recession ended in 2009. This time period, now being called the Great Recession, is still to this day taking an effect on our economy. A financial crisis is when information flows in financial markets experience a particularly large disruption, with the result that financial frictions increase sharply and financial markets stop functioning (Mishkin, 2015). Several factors can cause a financial crisis

The United States saw a recession starting in September of 2008. However, the event was not without warning. As early as 2006, there were signs of a drop in the housing market. The October new home permits were over a 25% less than the previous year. Prices were falling in 2006 and there were mortgage issues arising because of it. Come 2007, individuals became aware of banks having a problem with liquidity and were accepting subprime mortgages as collateral. At the end of the year, though, it seemed as if the Dow Jones Industrial Average, which would later trigger the recession, was almost near its peak. So, naturally, everyone ignored it.

While 2008 neared its close, financial institutions capsized worldwide. Earlier that year the main American stock index, The Dow Jones, began a downward spiral that ended up peaking the following March; a historic market low comparable to its 1997 levels and despite a sizeable recession, the dot com bust, occurring in between the two troughs (1). More broadly, the International Monetary Fund recorded a 1.7% decrease in global GDP during the approximately two-year period (2). This global contraction of economic growth became known as the Great Recession, the worst financial crisis since the one that indirectly sent the entire world into yet another bloody war. Just like the Dow, the responsibility for this international calamity lurks behind American markets. This collapse is inextricably correlated with the burst of the American housing bubble and multiple subsequent bankruptcies that required Federal Reserve intervention to solve. Nonetheless, our government, through imposing limitations on shadow banking or not deregulating the banking sector in the first place, possessed the capability to prevent this financial disaster throughout its development.

This paper was written to examine the causes of the financial crisis and Great Recession which can be materially tied back to decisions made in the 1970s and set the state for the crisis to occur. The paper invites the consideration of the key drivers that led to the subprime crisis that occurred long before 2007 and the result of a series of Acts that were ratified and the subsequent reforms that came about from these Acts. The Act that fanned the fire was the Community Reinvestment Act, which addressed a civil rights issue and a credit lending tendency to shun people of certain socioeconomic classes. Under the Act, various reforms made it fundamentally easier for people to purchase large capital assets no matter what their background

Back in 2008, here in the US and in many other countries around the world, we suffered

The financial crisis of 2008 turned the world upside down. It is said to be the worst financial situation for the United States since the Great Depression in the 1930’s. Millions of people all over the country lost their jobs, retirement funds, and even houses. After all this chaos and distress, the United States government still bailed out the banks that were supposedly ‘too big to fail’. There were many things that attributed to the big banks going under. Some of the factors that caused these banks to crash were high risk transactions, a very complex financial market, and even the lack of regulation throughout the industry (DeGrace). Although these played a large role in the

The financial crisis in 2008 that led to a crisis in the banking sector, and which nearly led to a complete collapse of the economy globally, was not only caused by changes in the regulatory, regulation and legislation oversight, but also fiscal and monetary policies. Many believe that, expansion of excesses monetary and irresponsibility of some of the government agencies led to the crisis.

The debt crisis was know as financial crisis and defined as a point of a country's foreign debt accumulation exceed it's earning power and the country has no ability to repay the debt.