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this eventually led to numerous mortgage defaults. The securities affected negatively from this perspective, and this scenario lowered down the value of mortgage-backed securities. Investors suffered because of the extreme loss of the mortgage market. Global asset prices fell at a rapid pace, and this scenario dried up the level of liquidity from the market that…

1. Explain how a securitization process works. What are the main risks arising from a securitization process for the originator, the SPV and investors? Identify them and explain in what they consist of. Explain also what a CDO is and which risks may be identified for all parties involved in its structuring and/or trading Securitization is the process of creating, through financial engineering, an illiquid asset into a security. Subprime Loans are examples of illiquid assets. During the process,…

The decision of the company taken by high level senior executives and indeed their board of directors was to accrue an enormous credit default swap (CDS) portfolio of $526 billion. AIG was also exposed to subprime mortgage loans. These loans became bad leading to a chain of events that culminated in the eventual collapse of AIG. What made things even worse off for AIG was that other companies…

The 2008 Recession was an influential economic downturn that had overreaching consequences. Chapters 7-17 of Peter Schiff’s How an Economy Grows and Why it Crashes provided a more objective view of a recession. The events of HBO’s Too Big to Fail was more focused on the government’s take on the recession and the measures it took to find a solution. The content provided by the book and movie regarding the housing bubble concurred, but the differed in the assessment of the government’s solutions…

argument of mind-body distinction is not really an argument at all and that the two traditional default positions of the argument, materialism and dualism, are not accurate representations as to what the real problem is and should be discarded. Searle’s purpose is to destroy any remaining idea of Cartesian dualism and introduce a much better way of thinking about how humans are, a refutation of the default positions and a transition to a more comprehensive view on the…

ADI Predator-Prey Population Size Relationship Lab Report In nature, there are many relationships between organisms. One of these is a predator-prey population size relationship, and more specifically for this investigation, predation. In this relationship, an organism (or organisms) depend(s) on others for food. There is a predator, the hunter, and the prey, the hunted. In this experiment, the predators were the wolves, and the prey were the sheep (the grass could also be considered prey, and…

certain that these types of borrowers would qualify; the government introduced a bill granting the down payment to be payed by the government. (U.S. Department of Housing, 2010) Nevertheless, these people with shaky credit and possible history of past defaults were now new home owners, living the American dream. Unbeknown to them it was to be short lived because in 2006 the Fed raised interest rates back close to 6% (Labonte & Makinen, 2008) pushing loan repayments through the roof forcing them…

Taking an intersectional standpoint, anybody who goes against the default of heterosexual, cisgender male will face some combination of these types of discrimination. Though Simone de Beauvoir describes the cultural definition of a woman particularly, this idea can be expanded: “She is defined and differentiated with reference…

The Second World War started a new beginning for childcare in Canada. What is known today as the Day Nursery Act wasn’t without trial and tribulation, nor was it first known as the Day Nursery Act. The Dominion-Provincial War Time Agreement was the first agreement that was made available in 50% cost sharing to the provinces to support child care programs for children whose mothers were working in essential wartime industries (Child Care Canada, 2011). Only two provinces saw the advantage of…

to have careers. According to Warner, these women had absolutely no idea that raising a family would be so much more difficult than they expected. These women suffering the consequences of their expectations not meeting reality. There is much to default and to keep up even in middle…