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It begins with the number of insurers pulling back from US states swelling from a stream to a flood, and not just in disaster ...
“September and October of 2008 was the worst financial crisis in global history, including the Great Depression.” Ben Bernanke, then the chair of the U.S. Federal Reserve, made this remarkable claim ...
Last year, for the first time, global average temperatures reached 1.5C above pre-industrial levels for 12 consecutive months ...
But one of the great ironies, I think, of the financial crisis was that the senior people at the Wall Street banks apparently didn't understand or capture the magnitude of their own financial ...
The 2008 financial crisis was years in the making. A reckoning was due for a years-long binge fueled by cheap credit. In mid-2007, two Bear Stearns hedge funds collapsed, BNP Paribas was warning ...
Social Security Cost of Living Adjustments, or COLAs, are a lifeline for seniors. Without them, Social Security benefits ...
Let’s take a brief look at the history of bear markets that ended in 1957 or later. During the first 10 months of 2022, the U.S stock market was mired in a painful bear market.
As UNO confronts the worst financial crisis in its history, students and staff are caught up in the chaos and uncertainty. Low-paid workers facing furloughs aren’t sure how they’ll make ends ...
The foreclosure crisis was a period of drastically elevated property seizures in the U.S. housing market between 2007 and 2010. Prior to and during the crisis, mortgage servicing companies ...
By asking the question ‘what is a financial crisis?’, this conference aims to open a discussion on the various definitions, understandings, analyses, narratives, and memories of financial crises from ...
With the stock market crash of 1929 and the 2008 financial crisis, history offered us a front-row seat to economic meltdown. Despite the decades separating these events, the similarities are ...