Global Effects
The 2008 financial crisis consequences strongly affected the world, from strong economies in Europe to slow growth developing countries. The world’s economy suffered a downfall that took around 2 years to recover.
Europe was one of the most affected regions in the world. Government interventions, capital injections and bailouts surged in the region after the US financial market crash. The European market has affected so hard that the impact of the US financial crisis developed into a Eurozone crisis.
One of the reasons the Eurozone was crushed is that the European banking system failed. Mainly because the European banks recklessly borrowed money in American markets to buy risky securities, those risky securities defaulted
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Being oil producing countries, the Middle East region had a strong currency and a stable economy due to strong oil prices. Also, helped by direct foreign investment and aid from other Arab countries, the Arab region was able to maintain strong during the crisis.
Asian countries economies suffered a slow economic growth during 2008 and 2009 mainly because being export economies, and the United States netting almost 1/3 of world’s consumption. East Asia was the most affected part of Asia, specifically Singapore and Japan. Singapore GDP’s dropped from a 14% annual growth rate in 2008 to a 1.1% in 2009 and Japan annual growth rate declined an astonishing 15.2% during the first quarter of 2009. As in the USA, Asia economy have had a strong recovering road but has been positively affected by the USA uprising economy. (Adbi.org)
United States
The USA financial system suffered one if it’s hardest crisis in 2008. According to specialists the average house hold in USA lost an average of 5,800$ in income during the recession peak. The cost to the Federal government to stop the crisis was around 2,000$ on average for every household in America, and the combined of the decreasing costs of stock values and housing values was around 100,000$ average for every household in America. (pewtrusts.org)
Gross Domestic Product: The USA gross domestic product suffered it highest decrease during the recession in the 4 quarter of
This recession has its effects on many countries over Europe. The bursting of the mortgage bubble specifically led to many crises and had its history written over eternity. The effects of this could be read in my second essay.
The financial crisis of 2008 hit the American economy and the world economy as well. It cost tens of millions of people their savings, jobs, and their homes. For decades the American financial system was stable and safe, but it changed. The financial industry turned its back on society; it corrupted the political system, and plunged the world economy into crisis. It was not an accident; it was caused by an out of control industry, a greedy industry. The crisis has made more damage to society while the industry has made more money.
When one of the largest US investment banks collapsed in 2008, it indicated that an economic crisis began. This economic crisis became the largest one since the 1930s. As a result, economic growth rates dropped in most parts of the world. More over, job losses dramatically increased and income amounts took a significant dive. On the other hand, the wealth of the top 1 percent increased dramatically, bringing with it significant social inequality and issues.
We will now examine the causes and the sequence of events from the Great Depression 1929-1939 and the Global Financial Crisis in 2007-2009. Although they both initialled in the United Stated, the effect also severely affected the Europe. The worst affected countries such as Austria, Portland, German and French, suffering Real GDP Loss of -22.45%, -20.70%, -16.11% and -14.65% respectively during 1929-1933 (Maddison, 2006).
The second phase of GFC stepped after the US bank crisis has evolved into the euro crisis, which thought to be the will of US leading troubles. Europe had its own internal unbalances that proved just as significant as those in US. Southern Europe racked up huge current-account deficits in the first decade while countries in the north ran offsetting surpluses. The imbalances were financed by credit flows from the euro-zone core to the overheated real estate markets of countries like PIIGS (Portugal, Ireland, Italy, Greece and Spain). The euro crisis is also a continuation of financial crisis by other means, as market ignoring the weaknesses of government debts overwhelmed its GDP.
The world economy has faced two major financial crises in its time and their effects are still rippling through the world economy till now. The Great Depression of 1930s had a worldwide economic crisis effect that led to a widespread unemployment, a halt in industrial production and construction and a decline in stock prices. The world economy barely came out of the effects of the Great Depression and was performing fairly well when it again faced another financial crisis of the 2000s.
The cost of the 2008 financial crisis to the economy has remained under-examined, probably because of the difficulty in making related assessment. Many sectors are impacted by this financial crisis at different levels. I believe that banking sector may be most influenced. Over the short term, the financial crisis affected the banking sector by causing banks to lose money on mortgage defaults, interbank lending to freeze, and credit to consumers and businesses to dry up. For the longer term, the financial crisis impacted banking sector by spreading new regulatory actions internationally through Basel III and through the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act in the United States (Investopedia).
So, the economic crisis in 2008 became the global economic crisis and influenced international businesses. Economic activities were weakened, people lost their jobs, wages and benefits were reduced and unemployment was rising. As far as the US government wanted to keep US economy going they reduced already low interest-rates and slowed down economic growth. US bank losses were forecast to hit $1 trillion and European bank losses will reach $1.6 trillion. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) estimated that US banks were about 60% through their losses, but British and eurozone banks only 40%. (Lost Spaces, 2009).
In 2008, there is an international crisis started in USA. It affects almost the whole world. The American enterprise institute, Peter Wallison had found in a research that said in United States government, they still believe in the idea of the 2008 financial crisis was caused by insufficient regulation of the private sector (Opinion Journal: What Caused the Financial Crisis?, 2015). There are some countries in Europe have not been in crisis because they were not have held by the United
It all started in the summer of 2007 when a crisis hit the U.S., and because of the huge government interventions that were made, the U.S. and most European countries got into a recession. The EU crisis was also caused by big debts made mostly in Spain and Italy, before 2008. The private sectors (companies and mortgage borrowers) who were taking out loans were the main reason for this crisis. There was a decrease in the interests rates in southern European countries when they joined the euro and that resulted and caused the countries to go into a huge debt. This had negative effects on the financial markets, a slowing down of the economic growth in the industrialized countries, and impacted the European labor markets. After the Second
The 2008 financial crisis leaded the USA to one of the most important recession after the Great Recession of 1980. It started in 2006 with the subprime crisis, and the proliferation of mortgage backed securities following by the estate crisis. The crisis was global ; it affected the whole economy; the financial institutions as well as the households and investors, and caused a stock market crash in September 2008. The government proposed several plans and packages to overcome the situation.
In order to fight the crisis some governments within the European Union had focused on raising taxes and lowering expenditure. This raise of taxes and lowering of the governments expenditure contributed to social unrest as it is only natural the living population would much rather not pay higher taxes (Eichler, 2011). Sovereign debt had risen substantially in only a few Eurozone countries, most dramatically in countries like Greece, Ireland and Portugal. Although only a small amount of countries had a debt crisis or where on a path of having a debt crisis, it had become a perceived problem for the rest of the European union countries as the threat of further contagion was on the brink and a possible break-up of the Eurozone was in peoples thoughts. The global credit crunch in 2007/ 08 affected and exposed countries to the sovereign debt crisis. The credit crunch alludes to a sudden deficiency of trusts for giving, prompting an ensuing decrease in advances accessible. This credit crunch was constrained by a sharp climb in defaults on subprime contracts. These home loans were predominantly in America however the ensuing deficiency of stores spread all through whatever remains of the world particularly in Europe. This credit crunch led to many changes within the Eurozone, the following are some of the changes that the credit crunch caused; bank losses such as commercial European banks lost money on their exposure to bad debts in US, recession that resulted
Along with the United States economy, the global economy was at risk if the bailout hadn’t been implemented. As the United States economy took a downfall, other countries were becoming more competitive. This was a golden opportunity for other countries to get past the United States in terms of their economic state. At the time of the bailout, a global credit crisis was taking place. The credit crisis is known to be the worst crisis since the Great Depression in the 1930’s. Many businesses could not trade with one another, because of the liquidity crisis caused by the global credit crisis. The liquidity crisis was caused by the banks distrust in consumers being able to pay back loans after the great recession. Trade had come to a halt for GM and Chrysler. Since the global economy
First, the banking crisis in Europe causes came from some specifics reasons. One can tell from the reduction of foreign capital and the relationship with the industry. After the World War I, European countries depended on financial support from abroad, especially in America, to rebuild and recover their nations. However, shortly after the crash of Wall Street in 1929, American investors withdrew their loans and money quickly from banks; it led many banks in American and in Europe in a danger of lacking currency. European countries were unable to repay American, and they also needed money to spend and revive their economies. The commercial banks could not handle the
In 2008, the U.S.-originated financial turmoil threatened the global capitalist system. All countries in the world were affected. The repercussions of the turmoil widespread around the globe resulted in various issues in the economies; the real sector contracted, unemployment levels rose, and commodity prices decreased. The economies hit the hardest experienced sharp reduction in stock prices and rates of exchange.