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Moreover, the de-leveraging of financial institutions, as assets were sold to pay back obligations that could not be refinanced in frozen credit markets, further accelerated the solvency crisis and caused a decrease in international trade. World political leaders, national ministers of finance and central bank directors coordinated their efforts to reduce fears, but the crisis continued.

Several commentators have suggested that if the liquidity crisis continues, an extended recession or worse could occur. The United Kingdom had started systemic injection, and the world's central banks were now cutting interest rates.

UBS emphasized the United States needed to implement systemic injection. UBS further emphasized that this fixes only the financial crisis, but that in economic terms "the worst is still to come". Relative to the size of its economy, Iceland's banking collapse is the largest suffered by any country in economic history.

At the end of October UBS revised its outlook downwards: The Brookings Institution reported in June that US consumption accounted for more than a third of the growth in global consumption between and For the first quarter of , the annualized rate of decline in GDP was Some developing countries that had seen strong economic growth saw significant slowdowns. Bruno Wenn of the German DEG recommends to provide a sound economic policymaking and good governance to attract new investors [].

The World Bank reported in February that the Arab World was far less severely affected by the credit crunch. With generally good balance of payments positions coming into the crisis or with alternative sources of financing for their large current account deficits, such as remittances, Foreign Direct Investment FDI or foreign aid, Arab countries were able to avoid going to the market in the latter part of This group is in the best position to absorb the economic shocks.

They entered the crisis in exceptionally strong positions. This gives them a significant cushion against the global downturn. The greatest effect of the global economic crisis will come in the form of lower oil prices, which remains the single most important determinant of economic performance. Steadily declining oil prices would force them to draw down reserves and cut down on investments.

Significantly lower oil prices could cause a reversal of economic performance as has been the case in past oil shocks. Initial impact will be seen on public finances and employment for foreign workers. The average hours per work week declined to 33, the lowest level since the government began collecting the data in With fewer resources to risk in creative destruction, the number of patent applications flat-lined. Compared to the previous 5 years of exponential increases in patent application, this stagnation correlates to the similar drop in GDP during the same time period.

Typical American families did not fare as well, nor did those "wealthy-but-not wealthiest" families just beneath the pyramid's top. On the other hand, half of the poorest families did not have wealth declines at all during the crisis. The Federal Reserve surveyed 4, households between and , and found that the total wealth of 63 percent of all Americans declined in that period.

On the same day, the Bank of England and the European Central Bank , respectively, reduced their interest rates from 4. As a consequence, starting from November , several countries launched large "help packages" for their economies. Conditions in financial markets have generally improved in recent months. Household spending has shown further signs of stabilizing but remains constrained by ongoing job losses, lower housing wealth, and tight credit. Businesses are cutting back on fixed investment and staffing but appear to be making progress in bringing inventory stocks into better alignment with sales.

Although economic activity is likely to remain weak for a time, the Committee continues to anticipate that policy actions to stabilize financial markets and institutions, fiscal and monetary stimulus, and market forces will contribute to a gradual resumption of sustainable economic growth in a context of price stability. The US Federal Reserve and central banks around the world took steps to expand money supplies to avoid the risk of a deflationary spiral , in which lower wages and higher unemployment led to a self-reinforcing decline in global consumption.

In addition, governments enacted large fiscal stimulus packages, by borrowing and spending to offset the reduction in private sector demand caused by the crisis. The US Federal Reserve's new and expanded liquidity facilities were intended to enable the central bank to fulfill its traditional lender-of-last-resort role during the crisis while mitigating stigma, broadening the set of institutions with access to liquidity, and increasing the flexibility with which institutions could tap such liquidity.

This credit freeze brought the global financial system to the brink of collapse.

The response of the Federal Reserve, the European Central Bank , the Bank of England and other central banks was immediate and dramatic. This was the largest liquidity injection into the credit market, and the largest monetary policy action, in world history. However, banks instead were spending the money in more profitable areas by investing internationally in emerging markets.

Banks were also investing in foreign currencies, which Stiglitz and others point out may lead to currency wars while China redirects its currency holdings away from the United States. Governments have also bailed out a variety of firms as discussed above, incurring large financial obligations. To date, various US government agencies have committed or spent trillions of dollars in loans, asset purchases, guarantees, and direct spending.

United States President Barack Obama and key advisers introduced a series of regulatory proposals in June The proposals address consumer protection, executive pay , bank financial cushions or capital requirements, expanded regulation of the shadow banking system and derivatives , and enhanced authority for the Federal Reserve to safely wind-down systemically important institutions, among others. The proposals were dubbed "The Volcker Rule ", in recognition of Paul Volcker , who has publicly argued for the proposed changes. These bills must now be reconciled. The New York Times provided a comparative summary of the features of the two bills, which address to varying extent the principles enumerated by the Obama administration.

European regulators introduced Basel III regulations for banks. Major banks suffered losses from AAA-rated created by financial engineering which creates apparently risk-free assets out of high risk collateral that required less capital according to Basel II. Lending to AA-rated sovereigns has a risk-weight of zero, thus increasing lending to governments and leading to the next crisis. At least two major reports were produced by Congress: Anatomy of a Financial Collapse released April As of September , no individuals in the UK have been prosecuted for misdeeds during the financial meltdown of As of , in the United States, a large volume of troubled mortgages remained in place.

It had proved impossible for most homeowners facing foreclosure to refinance or modify their mortgages and foreclosure rates remained high. The New York Times identifies March as the "nadir of the crisis" and noted in that "Most stock markets around the world are at least 75 percent higher than they were then. Financial stocks, which led the markets down, have also led them up. The distribution of household incomes in the United States has become more unequal during the post economic recovery , a first for the US but in line with the trend over the last ten economic recoveries since The financial crisis generated many articles and books outside of the scholarly and financial press, including articles and books by author William Greider , economist Michael Hudson , author and former bond salesman Michael Lewis , Kevin Phillips , and investment broker Peter Schiff.

In May , a documentary, Overdose: A Film about the Next Financial Crisis , [] premiered about how the financial crisis came about and how the solutions that have been applied by many governments are setting the stage for the next crisis. Greenspan is responsible for de-regulating the derivatives market while chairman of the Federal Reserve.

Time magazine named "25 People to Blame for the Financial Crisis". Michael Lewis published a best-selling non-fiction book about the crisis, entitled The Big Short. In , it was adapted into a film of the same name , which won the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay.

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One point raised is to what extent those outside of the markets themselves i. Subsequent to the crisis itself some observers furthermore noted a change in social relations as some group culpability emerged. In the table, the names of emerging and developing economies are shown in boldface type, while the names of developed economies are in Roman regular type.

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