Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Financial ServicesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Oversight of Implementation of the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 and of Government Lending and Insurance Facilities
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Financial ServicesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Congressional Oversight Panel April Oversight Report
Author: United States. Congressional Oversight PanelPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Foreclosure
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Report on the Activity of the Committee on Financial Services for the One Hundred Tenth Congress
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Financial ServicesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
Report on the Activity of the Committee on Financial Services for the 110th Congress, January 2, 2009, 110-2 House Report 110-929
Author: Global Housing Markets
Author: Ashok BardhanPublisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1118144236
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 576
Book Description
A global look at the reasons behind the recent economic collapse, and the responses to it The speculative bubble in the housing market began to burst in the United States in 2007, and has been followed by ruptures in virtually every asset market in almost every country in the world. Each country proposed a range of policy initiatives to deal with its crisis. Policies that focused upon stabilizing the housing market formed the cornerstone of many of these proposals. This internationally focused book evaluates the genesis of the housing market bubble, the global viral contagion of the crisis, and the policy initiatives undertaken in some of the major economies of the world to counteract its disastrous affects. Unlike other books on the global crisis, this guide deals with the housing sector in addition to the financial sector of individual economies. Countries in many parts of the world were players in either the financial bubble or the housing bubble, or both, but the degree of impact, outcome, and responses varied widely. This is an appropriate time to pull together the lessons from these various experiences. Reveals the housing crisis in the United States as the core of the meltdown Describes the evolution of housing markets and policies in the run-up to the crisis, their impacts, and the responses in European and Asian countries Compares experiences and linkages across countries and points to policy implications and research lessons drawn from these experiences Filled with the insights of well-known contributors with strong contacts in practice and academia, this timely guide discusses the history and evolution of the recent crisis as local to each contributor's part of the world, and examines its distinctive and common features with that of the U.S., the trajectory of its evolution, and the similarities and differences in policy response.
Journal and History of Legislation
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Financial ServicesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Banks and banking
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
Promoting Bank Liquidity and Lending Through Deposit Insurance, Hope for Homeowners, and Other Enhancements
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Financial ServicesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Connectedness and Contagion
Author: Hal S. ScottPublisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262546752
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 439
Book Description
An argument that contagion is the most significant risk facing the financial system and that Dodd¬Frank has reduced the government's ability to respond effectively. The Dodd–Frank Act of 2010 was intended to reform financial policies in order to prevent another massive crisis such as the financial meltdown of 2008. Dodd–Frank is largely premised on the diagnosis that connectedness was the major problem in that crisis—that is, that financial institutions were overexposed to one another, resulting in a possible chain reaction of failures. In this book, Hal Scott argues that it is not connectedness but contagion that is the most significant element of systemic risk facing the financial system. Contagion is an indiscriminate run by short-term creditors of financial institutions that can render otherwise solvent institutions insolvent. It poses a serious risk because, as Scott explains, our financial system still depends on approximately $7.4 to $8.2 trillion of runnable and uninsured short-term liabilities, 60 percent of which are held by nonbanks. Scott argues that efforts by the Federal Reserve, the FDIC, and the Treasury to stop the contagion that exploded after the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers lessened the economic damage. And yet Congress, spurred by the public's aversion to bailouts, has dramatically weakened the power of the government to respond to contagion, including limitations on the Fed's powers as a lender of last resort. Offering uniquely detailed forensic analyses of the Lehman Brothers and AIG failures, and suggesting alternative regulatory approaches, Scott makes the case that we need to restore and strengthen our weapons for fighting contagion.
Meeting on Priorities for the Next Administration
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Financial ServicesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
The Great Persuasion
Author: Angus BurginPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674070496
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 295
Book Description
Just as today's observers struggle to justify the workings of the free market in the wake of a global economic crisis, an earlier generation of economists revisited their worldviews following the Great Depression. The Great Persuasionis an intellectual history of that project. Angus Burgin traces the evolution of postwar economic thought in order to reconsider many of the most basic assumptions of our market-centered world. Conservatives often point to Friedrich Hayek as the most influential defender of the free market. By examining the work of such organizations as the Mont Pèlerin Society, an international association founded by Hayek in 1947 and later led by Milton Friedman, Burgin reveals that Hayek and his colleagues were deeply conflicted about many of the enduring problems of capitalism. Far from adopting an uncompromising stance against the interventionist state, they developed a social philosophy that admitted significant constraints on the market. Postwar conservative thought was more dynamic and cosmopolitan than has previously been understood. It was only in the 1960s and '70s that Friedman and his contemporaries developed a more strident defense of the unfettered market. Their arguments provided a rhetorical foundation for the resurgent conservatism of Barry Goldwater and Ronald Reagan and inspired much of the political and economic agenda of the United States in the ensuing decades. Burgin's brilliant inquiry uncovers both the origins of the contemporary enthusiasm for the free market and the moral quandaries it has left behind.