banking crisis

Our Dollar, Your Problem: An Insider’s View of Seven Turbulent Decades of Global Finance, and the Road Ahead

by Kenneth Rogoff  · 27 Feb 2025  · 330pp  · 127,791 words

percent in the 1960s, and stayed depressed for decades.32 The land, housing, and stock-price busts led to an acute stage of the simmering banking crisis, as several of Japan’s largest firms defaulted on loans collateralized by land whose value collapsed; the decrease in land value was further amplified by

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of other post-war financial crises in our 2009 book This Time Is Different. There is some debate among scholars about exactly when Japan’s banking crisis started. The government and banks did their best to deal with their balance-sheet problems as quietly and as gradually as possible, so the full

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collapsed under the weight of real estate loans gone bust and government debt followed suit thanks to explicit and implicit deposit insurance.25 (Iceland’s banking crisis hit full throttle slightly earlier, and for a while the gallows humor was, “What’s the difference between Iceland and Ireland? One letter and a

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global financial crisis — when U.S. authorities would have done well to take in suggestions from foreign experts, especially those who had experience navigating a banking crisis.) Because the government makes clear that the event is an important one, invitations cannot be lightly refused by business leaders whose companies take large profits

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for Finnish exports. Speculators circled, and the monetary authorities eventually found that they could not fend off the attack indefinitely. Finland went through a wrenching banking crisis.11 Having borrowed heavily abroad in dollars, and with their main income in now-devalued markkas, Finland’s banks were busted. Finnish law at the

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take climate risk as a systemic crisis, you are putting us at risk of an economic disaster. Climate change will heighten the risk of a banking crisis. Because of your negligence, the American people will have to take a 15 percent loss of GDP,” one of the leaders, a twenty-something young

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: What Do Earlier Banking Crises Reveal about America’s Travails Today?,” Economist, January 10, 2010. 25. Patrizia Baudino, Jean-Philippe Svoronos, and Diarmuid Murphy, “The Banking Crisis in Ireland,” FSI Crisis Management Series No. 2 (Bank for International Settlements, October 2020). See also Patrizia Baudino, Mariano Herrera, and Fernando Restoy, “The 2008

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–14 Banking Crisis in Spain,” FSI Crisis Management Series No. 4 (Bank for International Settlements, July 2023). 26. In February 2009, I was asked to come to Reykjavík

The Dream of Europe: Travels in the Twenty-First Century

by Geert Mak  · 27 Oct 2021  · 722pp  · 223,701 words

’s migrant crisis, Brexit, Trump. The iron ore mine, once the mainstay of the local economy, went bankrupt in 2015 in the aftermath of the banking crisis, and 400 people lost their jobs. The town took that calamity in its stride. The ice-free port of Kirkenes is now the most important

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; people saw it as a betrayal.’ Viktor Orbán, once just as much of a hippie dissident as Demszky, seized his chance. Two major shocks – the banking crisis and later the refugee influx – helped him back into the saddle, this time for good. The 2008 financial crisis in particular hit many Hungarian families

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of the American investment banks, was forced to ask for bankruptcy protection. Billions in losses came to light; it was the start of the great banking crisis of 2008. Even then, in those first few days, our initial reaction was still fairly technical: what might this mean for us? There was no

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years that followed. There were regular meetings and improvisations, but a central European financial regulatory authority never got off the ground. From 2009 onwards the banking crisis led seamlessly into a European debt crisis. What had brought little Ireland to the edge of the abyss took place all over Europe on a

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2013. By 2019, incidentally, it had fallen again to around 50 per cent of GDP, 10 per cent below the eurozone norm. Because of the banking crisis, public debt in Greece, Ireland, Italy, Portugal and Spain reached alarming levels. Their economies went into deep recession, tax income fell accordingly, and they survived

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, set up to support some 700,000 small businesses. The indirect effect of the financial crisis, however, was far bigger and far longer-lasting. Any banking crisis almost inevitably leads to an economic recession, and the social damage that results ultimately amounts to many times the cost of saving the banks. Which

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with the greatest of elegance and ease.’ The warnings led nowhere. They were stones tossed into a bucket of mud. After the shock of the banking crisis, the Netherlands found itself in an all-consuming frenzy of tight-fistedness. It seemed like a return to the rigid policies of Calvinist prime minister

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on one grandmother’s pension. The blows were absorbed. We turned out to be far tougher and more flexible than we ever imagined.’ 4 The banking crisis and the euro crisis that followed dominated European politics for years. The political and financial chaos in Greece, as we shall see later, brought everything

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Europe and far beyond. In America, ‘occupy’ was named ‘word of the year for 2011’. The movement raised awareness, bringing the social impact of the banking crisis to public attention once more. At a local level, occasional concrete results were achieved, especially in the field of debt relief, but Occupy too ran

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: for these people, as for many criminals, there was no longer any connection between action and consequences; they had lost all sense of responsibility. The banking crisis was a crisis of morality. The impunity and even rewards enjoyed by the bankers, the genuflection to the demands of the financial markets, the division

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Fuld, CEO of Lehman Brothers, where it all started, left with $71 million in bonuses and premiums. For the countries of the eurozone, after the banking crisis and the debt crisis came Act Three: the euro crisis. Yet after 2013 and 2014, Ireland and Portugal were able to stand on their own

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it was different. There were hardly any Muslims living here, so Poland was still mainly concerned with its own history. The same goes for the banking crisis of 2008. We had a lot of small businesses that were mainly supported by family money, not by the banks. In those years it was

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case. Shocking stories had been circulating internally for years, and in 2005 the country was even placed under fiscal monitoring for a while. After the banking crisis, further warnings came from the EU and the IMF, but the Greek economy was regarded as too small and too marginal to cause very much

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subsequent financial turmoil.’ The Greek crisis was indeed contagious. Ireland, Italy, Spain and Portugal came under immense pressure because of rapidly rising interest rates. The banking crisis of 2008 had already darkened their economic outlook considerably. Between them, the problem countries still had more than €3 trillion in outstanding national debt, so

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anti-austerity, pro-stimulus programme of the socialist François Hollande. Three days later, on 9 May, Spain’s BFA-Bankia started to collapse and another banking crisis was in prospect. Interest on government loans soared to 7 per cent and the Spanish government deficit spiralled. The situation was reminiscent of the Irish

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effort to take a different approach, but it stood not a cat in hell’s chance at the ECB. Even in 2013, during the Cyprus banking crisis, when Jeroen Dijsselbloem finally confronted the Russian magnates and other speculators with the price of their gambling, his decision to do so was met with

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demands for cuts, Greek military spending was miraculously spared. The problem lay deeper, however. By adroitly shifting the burden of debt onto taxpayers during the banking crisis, a difficulty in the private sector became a public matter – and not only that, it was squeezed into all kinds of national straitjackets. Intentionally or

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tackled the great migration crisis wrongly. Europe hasn’t tackled it at all,’ said Vincent Stuer, one of the Commission’s former policy staff. The banking crisis and the euro crisis, however difficult, were on the terrain of the Brussels institutions, which proved able to manage them. ‘But now, for the first

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their patients’ notes, and the pressure of work is increasing. ‘Our actual work used to be taken seriously. No longer, it seems.’ Of the 2008 banking crisis she says, ‘My husband had a lot of patients who lost all their money. I know a woman who used to talk proudly about her

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other spending cuts might be hanging over their heads? They had nowhere left to go. Inequality increased markedly in these years too, especially after the banking crisis of 2008. In the southern EU member states a new poverty-stricken class emerged, made up of young people with good educations who couldn’t

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’s impossible to say as yet. The European economy shrank by 6.4 per cent in 2020. Even in 2009, in the depths of the banking crisis, it declined by no more than 4.5 per cent. In Italy, Spain, Croatia and Greece the figure will probably be more like 9 per

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, further accelerated by the pandemic, is what needs to be combated now. The Economist, another bastion of the establishment, warns of a repeat of the banking crisis, when politicians ignored the grievances of ordinary people and the call for change, thereby helping populists into the saddle everywhere. This pandemic, it writes, offers

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Verlag, 2016. Thomas, Casper, De autoritaire verleiding: Over de opmars van de antiliberale wereldorde, Amsterdam, Atlas Contact, 2018. Tooze, Adam, ‘The Secret History of the Banking Crisis’, Prospect, August 2017. ———, Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World, London, Allen Lane, 2018. 1. The Sky’s the Limit – 1999 Engelen

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economic 41, 44; Soros demonized in 209–10, 367; Uprising (1956) 10, 206, 282 Hussein, Saddam 69–70, 71, 72, 74 Iceland 14, 205, 403; banking crisis and 14, 161–3, 167–8, 169, 179, 180, 184–5, 220, 241, 480; climate change and 480; ‘pot and pan revolution’ 180 Icesave 161

1929: Inside the Greatest Crash in Wall Street History--and How It Shattered a Nation

by Andrew Ross Sorkin  · 14 Oct 2025  · 664pp  · 166,312 words

here!”: “Glass and Long Clash Sharply,” Buffalo Times. GO TO NOTE REFERENCE IN TEXT tried to quell the tension: “Glass, Long in Hot Clash on Bank Crisis,” Springfield Press, March 12, 1933. GO TO NOTE REFERENCE IN TEXT After the skirmish: “Congressional Dangers,” Star Tribune, March 27, 1933. GO TO NOTE REFERENCE

Gambling Man

by Lionel Barber  · 3 Oct 2024  · 424pp  · 123,730 words

the late 1980s when stock-market prices defied gravity and irrational exuberance swept through the business and financial communities. Then came the inevitable crash, a banking crisis and years of economic stagnation known as the Lost Decade. The dot-com boom promised a return to the good times, and that night word

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young. That’s the key.’ In the circumstances, when pure tech companies were thin on the ground and Japan’s economy was mired in a banking crisis, Masa’s plea for greater understanding was reasonable. But SoftBank’s turbocharged growth, whereby the company leveraged itself by loading debt upon debt, raised awkward

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and gone. Part Three * * * THE OPERATOR 15. Broadband Revolution At the turn of the millennium, Japan was a country in search of a saviour. The banking crisis remained unresolved, the post-bubble economy stuck in a period of prolonged deflation. A succession of corruption scandals involving corporate Japan and members of the

Gilded Rage: Elon Musk and the Radicalization of Silicon Valley

by Jacob Silverman  · 9 Oct 2025  · 312pp  · 103,645 words

were all locked inside when the fire alarm went off,” one entrepreneur told Fortune. “And nobody knew where the exit was.”6 The Silicon Valley Bank crisis ended up being like many in recent American economic history: created by politically influential elites, who would soon be saved by the politicians they influenced

The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap

by Mehrsa Baradaran  · 14 Sep 2017  · 520pp  · 153,517 words

books of banks which were hugely vulnerable to shifts in confidence and liquidity." Financial Services Authority, “The Turner Review: A Regulatory Response to the Global Banking Crisis," March 2009, http://www.fsa.gov.uk/pubs/other/turner_review.pdf. 107. This is due to the yield-spread premium that a lender pays

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.brookings.edu/research/global-saving-glut-monetary-policy -and-housing-bubble-further-evidence/; Financial Services Authority, The Turner Review: A Regulatory Response to the Global Banking Crisis (London: Financial Services Authority, 2009), http://www.fsa.gov.uk/pubs/other/turner _review.pdf. 73. See Simon Johnson and James Kwak, 13 Bankers: The

The Quiet Coup: Neoliberalism and the Looting of America

by Mehrsa Baradaran  · 7 May 2024  · 470pp  · 158,007 words

the sector. But it was a little boring. And in a state of tranquility, the hard-won understanding of the causes and effects of a banking crisis were forgotten. So too were the fears about the unique ability of the financial sector to magnify its own power through the use of other

Money Free and Unfree

by George A. Selgin  · 14 Jun 2017  · 454pp  · 134,482 words

“credit crunch.” Finally, in August 1966, the Fed reversed its monetary policy again, this time to “rescue” the banks from its own misguided policies. The banking crisis of 1966—the first “financial crisis” (to adopt the conventional, hyperbolic vernacular) in the United States since the Great Depression—was a direct consequence of

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proved inadequate to save the pound. That currency’s convertibility, already jeopardized by France’s actions, was dealt a further, fatal blow by the Austrian banking crisis, which in turn triggered a general abandonment of sterling and, hence, of the exchange standard. As Gregory (1935: 57) explains, the attacks on sterling were

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-Vreeland provisions remained in place in 1930, they would have been more effective than the Fed turned out to be in averting that year’s banking crisis. For further details see Silber (2007). 17. In all, four different bills calling for the establishment of a “Banking and Currency” or “National Currency” commission

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Press. Redlich, F. (1951) The Molding of American Banking: Men and Ideas. Part II: 1840–1910. New York: Hafner Publishing. Reid, M. (1982) The Secondary Banking Crisis, 1973–75. London: Macmillan. Repullo, R. (2000) “Who Should Act as Lender of Last Resort: An Incomplete Contracts Model.” Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking

The End of Alchemy: Money, Banking and the Future of the Global Economy

by Mervyn King  · 3 Mar 2016  · 464pp  · 139,088 words

and the worst of times. It was a tale of two epochs – in the first growth and stability, followed in the second by the worst banking crisis the industrialised world has ever witnessed. Within the space of little more than a year, between August 2007 and October 2008, what had been viewed

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was an actor in the drama – Governor of the Bank of England for ten years between 2003 and 2013, during both the Great Stability, the banking crisis itself, the Great Recession that followed, and the start of the recovery – this is not a memoir of the crisis with revelations about private conversations

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value of the US dollar, which would produce a change in spending patterns. But long before that could happen, the third experiment ended with the banking crisis of September and October 2008. The shock that some of the biggest and most successful commercial banks in North America and Europe either failed, or

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manufacturing prior to the crisis. The period became known as the Great Recession. The economic consequences were seen well beyond countries that had experienced a banking crisis. My opposite numbers in Brazil and India, for example, talked to me about the puzzle of why demand for cars and steel in their countries

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was endorsed by the summit of the Group of Twenty (G20), which included both industrialised and emerging market economies, in London in May 2009. The banking crisis itself could be said to have ended when the US Treasury and Federal Reserve announced on 7 May 2009 the results of the stress tests

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or accept from the US government – $75 billion in total. By the summer of 2009, emerging market economies were starting to recover. But although the banking crisis had ended, the problems of the global economy remained. The shock of the events of 2008, and the subsequent sharp downturn, made western households and

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, since those dramatic days in the autumn of 2008 when central banks stepped in to prevent a complete collapse of the banking system? After the banking crisis ended in May 2009, confidence in the US banking system was restored. Output started to recover in the emerging economies, and, with the benefit of

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the recovery. Not this time. So why, after the biggest monetary stimulus the world has ever seen, and six years after the end of the banking crisis, is the world recovery so slow? Some economists believe that we are experiencing what they call ‘secular stagnation’, a phrase coined by the American economist

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wish.4 In normal circumstances the amount of money available for the financing of transactions is better captured by a broad measure, although in a banking crisis, as we shall see, a narrower definition may be more appropriate. When money satisfies the two criteria of acceptability and stability it can be used

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evasion, there seemed no end to the revelations about what banks had been doing. By 2015, the total fines imposed on banks worldwide since the banking crisis ended in 2009 amounted to around $300 billion – a staggering figure.19 Bad behaviour by talented young men is often associated with the sporting world

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devastating to small businesses in general and agriculture in particular, and exacerbated the depression in the economy. In contrast, the UK did not experience a banking crisis during the Great Depression. One reason was the tradition of national branch banking with its greater resilience and, it is fair to say, a high

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, as in Japan in the lost decade of the 1990s – and, as many fear, in other parts of the industrialised world today. In 2008 the banking crisis dominated the news. If money and banks are almost as old as Homo sapiens, central banks are the new kids on the block. As institutions

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in London and New York, throws light not only on our recent experience but on financial crises more generally. After September 2007, when the latest banking crisis began, I often publicly compared current events with those of 1914. Yet I found that few people knew much about the financial crisis of 1914

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the Universe wanted us to believe. Once confidence in the value of money or the soundness of banks was lost, there was a monetary or banking crisis. As Bagehot wrote in Lombard Street, ‘The peculiar essence of our financial system is an unprecedented trust between man and man; and when that trust

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Friedman to James Tobin and Hyman Minsky.14 Interestingly, John Maynard Keynes was not part of this group, largely because Britain did not experience a banking crisis in the 1930s and his focus was on restoring output and employment.15 More recently, a number of economists have proposed variations on the same

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2007 led to nervousness about the state of the sector. After the collapse of Lehman Brothers in September 2008, there was both a full-blown banking crisis and an enormous shock to confidence around the world. The stability heuristic was no longer appropriate. The narrative changed. It was now far from obvious

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highly unstable pattern of credits and debts, but also to a faulty diagnosis of the slow and faltering recovery in the advanced economies after the banking crisis came to an end in 2009. In 2014, Jaime Caruana, the General Manager of the Bank for International Settlements, said, ‘there is simply too much

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with a financial sector facing large losses, and the middle and near east with a rise in political tensions. Since the end of the immediate banking crisis in 2009, recovery has been anaemic at best. By late 2015, the world recovery had been slower than predicted by policy-makers, and central banks

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Relief Program (TARP) to recapitalise their banks instead. When that duly happened in the spring of 2009, following the stress tests of US banks, the banking crisis effectively ended. 58 MacGregor (2014). 59 Roberts (2013), p. 165. 60 Comptroller of the Currency, Annual Report 1907, p. 74, quoted in Silber (2007), p

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, 158, 160, 226, 348, 355; dramatic effect on politics and economics, 41; Friedman and Schwartz on, 78, 192, 328; and ‘gold standard’, 73, 76; US banking crisis during, 90–1, 108, 116, 201 Great Recession (from 2008), 6, 38–9, 163, 290–2, 326 Great Stability (or Great Moderation), 6, 22, 45

Meltdown: How Greed and Corruption Shattered Our Financial System and How We Can Recover

by Katrina Vanden Heuvel and William Greider  · 9 Jan 2009  · 278pp  · 82,069 words

governmental philosophy that began with the Emergency Banking Act of 1933. That first piece of New Deal legislation was a hurried response to the worst banking crisis in U.S. history—until now. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt outlined the problem clearly in his first fireside chat, a week after taking office. “We

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