The first was the collapse of the mortgage market and the second the institutional financial crisis that ensued.
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It is important to know that when Wood was Tokio bureau chief of the Economist in the early 1990s, he astutely predicted the pending collapse of the Japanese equity market.
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Nearly all global banks are suffering from the aftermath of the collapse of the real estate market, but financial institutions in Europe are simultaneously battling a serious sovereign debt crisis.
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Estrada does not think the near-collapse of the market has deterred investments in the Philippines.
Many had been caught out after the collapse of the housing market on both sides of the Atlantic, which exposed a culture of high-risk lending without proper risk management in place.
Supply-side driven entrepreneurship misguides animal spirits, wasting resources and talent, fueling asset bubbles that end up in financial crisis like the US recently experienced, the sovereign debt crisis in Europe, and the Japanese real estate market collapse of the 1990s.
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About a year ago, in the wake of the collapse of MF Global, the market set its crosshairs on Jefferies, another firm feared to have excessive exposure to eurozone sovereign debt.
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One possible explanation is that venture capitalists had much better investment opportunities available to them in the 1990s, as the technology revolution gathered speed, whereas buy-out funds were badly hit by the collapse of the junk-bond market in the late 1980s and the recession of the early 1990s.
Over the next three and a half years CBS stumbled through a protracted writers' strike that crippled Hollywood and into the near-collapse of the advertising market.
Tax cuts, spending on multiple wars and a major recession induced by the collapse of the housing market have combined to spike the U.S. debt burden, while sovereign debt issues have all but blown up the economies of Southern Europe (not to mention the banks, insurance companies and other investors who bought that debt).
These days there is no shortage of state and local municipalities struggling under the weight of budget shortfalls that were aggravated by the collapse of the real estate market and ensuing recession.
Indeed, private equity is not the only illiquid, high-risk, private investment that has gained the attention of securities regulators since the market collapse of 2008.
Between 2006 and 2009 he worked at Citigroup, where he was chief operating officer of Citigroup Alternative Investments, which bet on the collapse of the housing market.
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But that one fell victim to rapidly developing technologies, the recession, and the collapse of the consumer electronics market, and is unlikely to return a significant profit.
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The collapse of the single market, which has done more than anything else to knit Europe together, would threaten the EU itself.
The U.S. government sued 17 financial firms, including Goldman Sachs, in September for selling billions of dollars worth of mortgage-backed securities to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac that became toxic after the collapse of the housing market.
The lesson of the 2008 financial market collapse (and of the Titanic, for that matter) is that we should never be complacent about anything.
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The collapse of the housing market certainly played its part, further negating suggestions of fraud.
The collapse of the housing market caused real problems for companies dealing in securitized mortgage investments.
The collapse of the construction market has left more than 4.7 million people in Spain without work.
Who wanted to take a chance on a rat farm just after the collapse of the stock market?
Shortly after the collapse of the real estate market and the ensuing truncated deflationary-depression, Bernanke took interest rates to near zero percent.
The collapse of the commodities market in 2008 battered many hedge funds.
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The bank, under the guidance of its top executives, Ferozi and Sherkhan Farnood, a world-class poker player, had begun to founder, in part owing to the collapse of the property market in Dubai.
Apparently the frequency with which consumers are dining out has been on the rise since mid-2009, presumably since contracting during the worst part of the recession and stock market collapse, and the writers at The Fiscal Times think it may have something to do with cost.
However, it may also reflect the bottoming-out of prices and activity in the US housing market following the collapse of last decade's property bubble.
The credit crisis has been caused by a collapse of the housing market, which has made trillions of dollars of mortgage-backed securities held by major financial institutions worthless.
In many cases, pension funds are buying government bonds because they need fixed income instruments and the near-collapse of the mortgage-backed securities market has eliminated that supply.
With the collapse of the Japanese stock market and real estate and then the banking system in the 1990s, the Japanese model quickly lost its appeal.
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In late 2008, after the collapse of Lehman Brothers, the market was pricing in deflation (see chart).
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