great depression ii (averted) june 2, 2010. clue final review tuesday june 8 th 6:30-8:00 pm mary...
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Great Depression II (averted)
June 2, 2010
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CLUE Final Review
Tuesday June 8th
6:30-8:00 PM Mary Gates Hall room 242
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The Financial Crisis, Put Simply
• Overborrowing and overlending• Private debts (of banks and people) assumed
by governments
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Background
• Housing bubble– Low interest rates– “Chimerica”– Rising home prices– Credit flowed into “sub-prime” mortgages. Why?
• Banks: up-front fee, low risk with rising home prices• Buyers: greedy, ignorant, or calculating
• Complex financial instruments to share (hide) risk• Deregulation and rise of “shadow banking”Ticking time bomb: unsustainable system
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House Prices
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Short-term Precipitates
• House prices slowIrresponsible investment banks collapseBanks stop lending to each otherEconomy freezes, stock market falls 7%
9/29/08
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4Ns4ltUvfw&feature=related
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US Response
• Low interest rates• TARP (Troubled Asset Relief Program) for
injecting credit and buying “toxic assets”• Stimulus bill ($790 billion)• Nationalize US auto companies• Incentives to buy cars, houses
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International Repercussions
• China, India, Brazil: not too bad• Booming economies with debt (Russia, Dubai,
Las Vegas): steep fall• Low-income countries: poverty, protectionism• European Union: uncompetitive economies,
states had to cut spending (PIIGS)
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Implications• Victory for “state capitalism”; death of
neoliberalism?• IMF is back• Let’s all be Canadian (i.e. boring)• Political backlash milder than 1930s (so far)• Rise of the Rest• Is the US a future Greece (national debt: $13
trillion; 84% of GDP)?• Future of economics?• Is it really over?
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