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| | ... supposedly omniscient credit-ratings contributed to the worst credit, liquidity, financial and economic mess since the Great Depression. Before the GFC, they were too slow - perhaps even unwilling - to downgrade structured assets, banks and financial ... |
| | | ... it at 40 per cent of gross national product - were among the policy mistakes that prolonged and deepened the Great Depression of the 1930s. Better the threat of having one or two As taken away from AAA than falling back into a downward economic spiral. ... |
| | | ... guide us with this. No one could deny that the worst economic contraction in the US economy happened during the Great Depression. At the same time, there is little debate that what we are experiencing now is a deep recession - far from the scale of the ... |
| | | ... sidelines are frozen into action by prophets of doom who draws parallels of the current crisis with that of the Great Depression. These 'prophets' warn that because the current crisis shares similar causes and symptoms with that of the 1930s, the stock ... |
| | | ... market's nerves. But we'll be right so long as the market realises that recessions have a used by date. Even the Great Depression did not last forever. |
| | | ... comprehensive reform. Not modest repairs at the margin, but new rules of the game.' What does history tell us? During the Great Depression of the 1930s, new laws were also introduced so that the Americans won't relive the pain and desperation ever again. ... |
| | | ... $2.1 trillion, or 57 per cent of GDP. "This is by far the most serious crisis to hit the world economy since the Great Depression. While this crisis originated in the US and some European countries, by now no region or country is insulated. I am afraid ... |
| | | ... big risks facing investors. Referring to how former US President Theodore Roosevelt rescued Americans from the Great Depression, Shiller said the government's bail-out package is not enough. The Obama administration needs to ensure that the taxpayers ... |
| | | ... permanently high plateau.' What happened? A few days later, there was a big thud in the stock market and the Great Depression ensued. So it was in the boom, so it with the bust. For sure, there are still plenty of risks out there. But astute investors ... |
| | | ... peeped through under the zero line - down 0.2 per cent! And people are talking of Depression? Never mind the Great Depression, which the US and the world survived. The US economy (in year-on-year terms) contracted by even more in 1954, 1958, 1961, 1974/75 ... |
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