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Index

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Parent topics

• Economics [r]: The analysis of the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services. ^[e]
• Financial economics [r]: the economics of investment choices made by individuals and corporations, and their consequences for the economy, . ^[e]
• Banking [r]: the system of financial intermediation that provides the principle source of credit to individuals and companies. ^[e]
• Great Recession [r]: The disruption of economic activity that began with a downturn in 2007 and generated international repercussions that continued through 2012 and into 2013. ^[e]

Subtopics

• Bank failures and rescues [r]: an account of the occurrence , causes and consequences of bank failures, and of methods of dealing with them ^[e]

Related topics

• Crash of 2008 [r]: the international banking crisis that followed the subprime mortgage crisis of 2007. ^[e]

Glossary

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• ABX index [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Bubble (economics) [r]: A surge in prices that raises expectations of further increases, so generating further increases: a process that continues until confidence falters, the bubble "bursts" and prices rapidly revert to an objectively-based level. ^[e]
• Fannie Mae [r]: (Federal National Mortgage Association) US government-sponsored enterprise created to provide financial support to Savings and Loans. Privatised in 1968. ^[e]
• Federal Reserve Board [r]: The board of governors of the Federal Reserve System. ^[e]
• Freddie Mac [r]: (Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation) Fannie Mae clone created to provide competition to Fannie Mae. ^[e]
• Hedge fund [r]: A limited-membership, aggressively-managed investment fund, often escaping regulation. ^[e]
• Prime rate [r]: The interest rate that commercial banks charge for loans involving the lowest risk of default - such as loans to large companies. ^[e]
• Savings and loans [r]: US mortgage-lenders. American counterpart to British building societies. ^[e]
• Securitisation [r]: The conversion of a cash flow into a marketable security (usually a claim upon debt repayments) and often categorised according to the expected risk of default (examples include collateralised debt obligations and structured investment vehicles.) ^[e]
• Structured investment vehicle [r]: (SIV) a fund that borrows money - usually at LIBOR rates - by the issue of asset backed commercial paper and uses it to finance longer term loans at higher interest rates. ^[e]
• Subprime lending [r]: Lending at interest rates above the prime rate because of an above-minimal risk of default. ^[e]