And for a while it appeared that another meltdown would convulse the market.
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And yes, I got the feeling my cohort last night felt to varying degrees that we could well experience another meltdown in the financial markets since major banking institutions had not truly reformed themselves into stalwart institutions.
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Idea number two is let's get rid of regulations that we put into place to make sure that Wall Street does not misbehave again and we don't have another meltdown, or getting rid of regulations that help protect our air and our water, or getting rid of regulations that protect consumers from unscrupulous lenders.
In the interim, another huge meltdown occurred in a commodities firm in the form of Peregrine Financial.
CEOs may be turning more introspective now that the world has escaped, at least for the time being, another financial meltdown.
Not everyone's happy with the switch to paper, but Brunner told a town hall meeting in Akron this week that she's trying to avoid another voting meltdown.
If you're among the multitude of investors who flocked to cash last year in fear of another market meltdown, and you are nervous about getting back into the market, consider starting small.
In fact, T he Independent Commission on Banking, led Sir John Vickers, released its final report last month on how the UK should restructure its banking sector to prevent another financial meltdown.
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Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and his counterparts in Washington are holding fast to their insistence that the government stay out of rescuing another financial firm, even at the peril of another massive meltdown.
The blunt truth is that even if we had had President Obama's financial regulatory "reforms" in place four years ago--reforms designed to prevent another financial meltdown--we would still have experienced a horrific economic disaster.
Advances in global economic integration as well as financial reform measures such as Dodd-Frank and others are moving market participants to trade their financial instruments on centralized, monitored exchanges so we can help avert another financial meltdown like we had in 2008.
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On June 3rd, 2009 German Chancellor, Angela Merkel, while addressing a crowd in Berlin, rebuked the European Central bank and counterparts in Britain for having gone too far in fighting the financial crisis, which may be laying the ground work for another major financial meltdown.
You suggest that we would instead be better off repealing Dodd-Frank, returning to a world where taxpayers bail out failing financial firms, predatory lenders and unscrupulous brokers prey on vulnerable homeowners, the public absorbs losses because of Wall Street's risky behaviour, and regulators are left in the dark, unable to prevent another global financial meltdown.
What would be more costly, a smallish global effort now to help turn the promising euro zone rescue fund into a market-calming firewall, or a massive bailout next year from another global financial crisis and market meltdown as was required in 2008?
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Tight spreads reflect bankers' enthusiasm: syndicated-lending, often by foreign banks (including one that swore not to invest another dollar in Russia after the previous meltdown), has more than doubled since 1998.
But Ryan was marinating in the Bahamas, and the gloves came off immediately another Rex bashfest, goosed by a new Jets meltdown.
Mr Obama can reasonably point out that he was elected in the wake of a financial meltdown that had threatened to bring about another Great Depression, with an unemployment rate that would make the current one look like a lucky escape.
He has won a golf tournament, but until he wins another major, people are going to ask him about the meltdown at Winged Foot.
They say that the Fed sees housing rolling over, the banks taking another round of body blows and the next Lehman-like meltdown somewhere around the bend.
After Mirant, another power producer, found itself on the verge of a debt-induced meltdown two years ago, it decided to pay only portions of obligations while betting the power market would strengthen enough to give it the cash to pay its interest bills.
Another who might have reached the presidency, had he not succumbed to the same meltdown of reason is former New York Governor Eliot Spitzer, the law and order guy who threw it all away to cavort with prostitutes.
There could be the kind of meltdown, I guess, like occurred -- partial meltdown that occurred at Three Mile Island, and that would -- another agency might have the lead -- because they would have the expertise, so they would have the lead in responding to that.
We need another Pecora Commission, another Fulbright Committee, another Sam Ervin to use the power of Congress to shed light on the causes of our current economic meltdown.
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