The financial crisis of 2008 shined a bright light on the behavior of large financial institutions, which had become too complex to regulate, too clumsy to manage and, according to the government, too big to fail.
"We have reached the scary point where the dysfunctional behavior of financial markets has destructive effects on the financial system and--much worse--on the real economies, " writes New York University economics professor and Forbes.com columnist Nouriel Roubini.
Seen in this way, much of the recent extreme financial behavior is rooted in faulty monetary policies.
Longtime critics of the OCC, which oversees national banks, say the U.S. agency has responded too slowly to risky activities, opening the door to some of the reckless behavior that triggered the financial crisis.
They hold dollars to show good behavior in the international financial community, posits this expert, who requested anonymity.
That figure is likely to jump, given the egregious corporate behavior, imagined or otherwise, that fed the recent financial crisis.
But even so, the burden of proof is often on the spouse with less financial resources (typically the woman) to prove any such unscrupulous behavior.
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Citigroup appears to be indulging in the similar type of behavior that brought that giant bank to its knees in the financial crisis of 2008.
There are different forms of lending discrimination and many possible scenarios throughout the financial industry in which this type of behavior can occur.
Consumers are still hating on Bank of America for its behavior during and after the financial crisis, and find it just slightly less offensive than the oil spill disaster BP created in 2010.
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The widespread use of inappropriate assumptions invites an examination of the behavior of various individuals in bringing about the global financial crisis.
That is, the benefit to the capital market of improved financial information must be weighed against the cost of any changes in economic behavior induced by new accounting rules.
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Those are the very same kinds of policies that caused the systematically mistaken investment and increasingly risky behavior that built up over the years and precipitated the recent financial crisis.
The financial meltdown of 2008 was a bonfire of bad behavior on all sides.
Financial data engenders the same patterns of thought and behavior-negative news creates a decision, such as to sell a stock position.
It took a number of years of flawed policy decisions, of an absence of appropriate oversight and regulation, of unfortunate risky behavior in our financial markets to precipitate the economic free fall that we all experienced in 2008 and 2009.
So does the idea, prominent throughout the financial crisis and its aftermath, that business failure should be punished because the failure obviously was caused by knowingly risky behavior.
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Any individuals or institutions supporting its abhorrent behavior will be targeted and cut off from the international financial system.
And this irresponsible behavior on the part of some contributed to the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression.
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Gas taxes or carbon prices intended to alter behavior only work by causing financial pain to force the demand response.
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To achieve this, they curtailed personal consumption and drove remarkable behavior change to free up financial and other resources for the war effort.
Until Facebook can convince analysts that it has the power to modify user behavior, they are likely to continue seeing lackluster financial results.
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As it relates to financial reform, there -- rules were put in place to change the behavior of Wall Street and to prevent what happened in September of 2008 and what led up to it from ever happening again.
Now let's look down the financial road at these two individuals, assuming that they continue to make their financial decisions based on these patterns of behavior.
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