The Borrowers

Financial Crisis Ty’Orrin Collins Global Issues Savannah State University Abstract In this essay, I will reflect on the global financial crisis. I will discuss the cause of the financial crisis, the affect the financial crisis had on the entire world, and the response to the financial crisis by the United States. Keywords: Global Financial Liberalization, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, and Asian Financial Crisis Financial Crisis Our nation has encountered a few financial crises…

In this scenario a patient had surgery and was administered anesthesia by a nurse-anesthetist that caused fatality. The fatality was due to the patient not receiving adequate oxygen that caused the patient to go into cardiac arrest because the nurse-anesthetist did not monitor the vital signs accurately. A surgeon helped assist in administering the initial anesthetic. In accordance of the doctrine of "respondeat superior” the surgeon has vicarious liability for the patient's death. To support…

The 2008 meltdown had taught lessons to essential market actors, such as banks, governments and nations worldwide of interconnected actions and following consequences of financial hardships. The introduction of Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 and the fact of actually surviving the meltdown had slowly earned back Americans’ trust in real estate market investments as of today. Real estate seems to be a great method for people to invest their money in until obtaining an ownership or…

Ratios related to financial decision process The table 2 below indicates three types of investment ratios and their implications. Fixed assets turnover is sometimes highly emphasized while making investment decision as it measures the relationship between fixed assets invested and profits generated, which may interest those investors and shareholders who have invested its property or fixed assets into the business and also it could be also significant to the financial manager as he may make an…

Loans are the largest source of credit risk to a financial institution .However, other sources of credit risk exist throughout the activities of a financial institution including in the banking book and the trading book, and both on and off the balance sheet. The goal of credit risk management is to maximize a SACCOs risk adjusted rate of return by maintaining credit risk exposure within acceptable parameters. SACCOs need to manage credit risk inherent to the entire portfolio as well as the risk…

The book “DIVIDE” written by Matt Taibbi was published in 2014 by Spiegel & Grau Publisher. The book consists of stories that portray the U.S society as a society that divides the citizens in to rich and poor and ones with power or without power. Powerful people gain even more power while those who are weak get weaker. Average citizens are being criminalized while large corporations are being forgiven for their criminal actions. Taibbi goes through nine examples that exemplify how justice works…

It was described as a “lazy way of managing the balance sheet” (Mensah, n.d.). A repo agreement involves temporary transfers of securities with an exchange in cash, which would be settled when the borrower repays the money with an agreed interest rate and repossesses the securities. In the legal perspective, the legal title of the securities shifts from Lehman Brothers to its buyer until the occurrence of repurchase. According to the repurchase agreement…

Yes, indeed, the real estate and mortgage meltdown did have a crushing impact on the United States economy. No one knows that better than me. During the time of the real estate industry collapse, my husband worked for a company that did marketing for both the real estate and automotive industries – perhaps the two worst industries you could be involved in at that particular time. Within two years, the company went from being on the illustrious Inc Magazine “Top 500 Fastest-Growing Companies” to…

from the political movement behind deregulation of the 1980s, development of trading instruments like derivatives and bundling of loans and mortgages into what was called Collateralized debt obligations (CODs). The film delves into how the subprime borrowers were given house loans at low interest which in the end led to collapsing of the whole system. The film ends by saying that despite recent financial regulations, the underlying system has…

Students must weigh the opportunity costs before making a decision. The article Student Debt Crisis 2016 explains, “Student financial aid expert Mark Kantrowitz recently calculated that student borrowers in the class of 2016 are set to have the highest level of debt yet, at $37,172, the Wall Street Journal reported this week. This is up from about $35,000 last year.” This means that student debt is at an all time high, which is a part of the opportunity…