So much so that when you ask experts in Seoul how their conglomerates fared during the crisis, some ask: what crisis?
These are the guys who are seeing, moment by moment, what this financial crisis is, what is happening.
You know, one of the -- obviously part of what triggered this entire crisis was what was going on in the mortgage industry.
That's a useful reminder of the economic problems at the heart of this crisis: what looks like a banking crisis in Spain and the rest is just as much a crisis of competitiveness.
For all the focus in the past few years on what went wrong in the financial crisis and what needs to be fixed, equal or more time should be devoted to creating worthy investment and risk-taking opportunities.
No one can predict what will cause the next crisis, or what will cause the next money market fund to break the buck.
Weighing what was sustainable in the short term to prevent another economic crisis against what is fair, more sustainable, and puts the U.S. on the road to eventual higher growth and sustainable finances.
What the financial crisis in America did was to bring the party to an end.
But what makes this crisis different is the fact that it was in many ways unexpected.
The velocity with which these events have occurred is what makes this crisis so rich for education.
It was one of the clearest things I've read anywhere in any financial writing about what caused the crisis.
And Tim Russert asked him specifically, what about the crisis in Social Security?
But is this plunge into societal crisis what Japan actually requires to force a new commitment to reform and revitalization?
Now, much of what caused this crisis was an era of recklessness where short-term gains were too often prized over long-term prosperity.
That is not what transparency and crisis management need to look like.
What the current crisis is testing is how far modern democracies are capable of submitting to the discipline needed to maintain faith in their currencies.
As I said, many of the issues when it comes to large systemic banks and what precipitated the crisis on Wall Street don't apply to these smaller banks.
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"What the credit crisis exposed is that these vehicles are much more complex than people assumed, " says Steve Deutsch, who tracks the funds at investment-research firm Morningstar Inc.
Deteriorating financial market and global economic conditions have fueled a host of questions, from what caused the crisis of confidence to how we can fix it and learn from it.
That's what makes this crisis so challenging.
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You never know what the European debt crisis or the fiscal cliff might lead to.
That government takeover would have spooked the markets more than what happened in the crisis.
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But if he does not achieve it, and the lack of reforms triggers a fresh financial crisis, what then?
The state-owned Rossiyskaya Gazeta says that France's "sudden" decision to intervene in Mali is what sparked the hostage crisis.
Indonesia's first free elections since 1955 could prove that, in fact, democracy is just what a country in crisis needs.
OK, so we all know what the Greek debt crisis is really about: Greece borrowed more money than they can pay back.
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