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    Retirement Savings

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    It's never to early to start saving for retirement and the more you have the better you can enjoy your golden years! You'll be amazed at how much money you can accumulate by changing a few things early on. Here's some tips on what you can do to get a boost in your retirement savings. Review your insurance. As you age, you may not need the same insurance coverage for life, house and car as you did when you were young. Your life insurance is there to provide income for your family but when the…

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    happened in 2008 became the harshest financial event and had reshaped the world in finance and investment banking. The global economic crises started in 2007 with credit squeeze causes the United States investors have loss confident in sub-prime mortgages which lead to liquidity crises. As a result, the US Federal Bank interjects a lump sum of capital into financial market. The full impact was felt by the world when the bankruptcy of the investment, Lehman brother in September 18, 2017. The…

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    between theirs and others, conflict arises. In some conflicted areas of the world, liberalism has failed and new authoritarian powers have appeared. The cause of the 2008 economic crisis was borrowers not being able to keep up with their ballooning mortgage payment. As a result, borrowers started defaulting, which put more houses on the market for sale. With supply way up and demand extremely low, home prices collapsed. Because liberalism involves an open, global trading system dependent between…

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    Lehman Brothers was initially on the beneficiary end of the from the housing boom that allowed for huge profits on mortgage loans, encouraging its practice of offering subprime loans to aggregate mortgages for securitization. However, this practice of offering mortgage loans to subprime borrowers fell apart when the housing bubble burst. Lehman Brother was incredibly overexposed to losses at the time of the financial collapse due to the drastic…

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    capital began to flow into the housing market which in turn drove up housing prices and profits. Compounding the problem was the fact that mortgage rates were extremely low, encouraging prospective buyers to take on massive levels of debt in order to finance such…

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    (socialeurope.eu). Needless to say, the crisis was surely different from any other recent financial crises (socialeurope.eu). The crisis was the direct result of housing bubble burst, also known as the United states subprime mortgage crisis. The United States subprime mortgage crisis was a, nationwide banking emergency, occurring between 2007-2010, which contributed to the U.S. recession of December 2007 – June 2009. Subprime lending means, “making loans to people who may have difficulty…

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    crisis since the Great Depression. Most economists agree that the crisis began in 2006, when housing prices began to decline, leading to the collapse of the subprime mortgage market in 2008. The subprime mortgage market had been in place since the 1990s, and lacked regulation. The lack of regulation due to corruption among mortgage securitization companies in the 1990s ultimately led the collapse of the economy 2 decades later. The financial crisis resulted in the US government engaging in a…

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    Fnma Case Study

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    which they paid a 10% dividend.5 Lower interest rates on loans gave FNMA an advantage that other mortgage companies and banks do not receive. Since the late 1990s, FNMA along with FHLMC have donated over 3 million dollars to members of congress and invested over 400 million dollars in subprime-backed securities.6 This led to the financial crisis of 2008 and the bailout of FNMA and FHLMC. The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) lobbied against FNMA. The association does not want the company to…

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    2008 and major problems that resulted from it such as businesses failing or needing to be bailed out by the Government. The Great Recession of 2008 also cause many other problems. The start of the financial crisis started in 2007 when sub-prime mortgages began to increase. The Federal Reserve flooded the markets with money trying to reduce interest rates, but that failed along with the value of the dollar. They also providing assistance in form of bail out to financial institutions. Later in…

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    first, the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (commonly known as Freddie Mac or Freddie) announced it would no longer purchase high-risk mortgages and, second, New Century Financial Corporation – a leading mortgage lender to riskier customers – filed for bankruptcy. Mortgage lender Countrywide Financial was bought by Bank of America for $4bn in January 2008, while many other firms had their credit ratings downgraded. Amidst continuing tight credit markets, mortgage and financial firms…

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