Global financial Crisis (GFC) The present Global Financial Crisis (GFC) has been considered by the financial experts and economists as the worst financial crisis apart from 1930s Great Depression. The GFC led to the collapse of large financial institutions and downturns of the major stock markets globally. The crisis led to the failure of several key businesses and s significant decline in the economic activities. The GFC started on the U.S.

Financial Analysis of Lehman Brother Lehman Brothers The history has been full of financial collapses and financial scandals and one of the biggest financial collapses that a company has ever seen was that of Lehman brother. The collapse of a firm as huge as Lehman Brother and a firm which has such great experience of over a hundred years lead the world into a shock. It created doubts in the minds of

Estimation Techniques of Financial Crisis The unquestionable ethical conducts within the corporate circle had been the major factor that led to 2008/2009 financial crisis. By studying the root causes of the crisis, it has been revealed that bad conducts among the CEOs of Bear Stearns, Lehman Brothers, Citigroup and Countrywide Financial have been the primary factors leading to 2008/2009 financial crisis. Objective of this paper is to argue that the CEOs of

Meltdown Frontline looks into what caused one of the greatest economic crises in history and the ways in which the government reacted and responded. The film details the inside scoop on Bear Stearns deal, the bailout of AIG to the tune of 700 billion dollars, and the collapse of the Lehman Brothers. I watched a number of videos, one of them being "Inside the Meltdown," the first video of the Frontline

..although these securitization trusts were based on many unaffordable and unsustainable mortgages, it didn't crumble right away because the companies were gouging so much out of the consumer, they still had a high rate of return" but then housing prices dropped and more and more homes were foreclosed upon (Rayman 2008, p.3). At first "Lehman managed to avoid the fate of Bear Stearns, the other of Wall Street's small fry, which

At some institutions, loans of this type were actually called "liar loans" by brokers, a reference to the obvious fudging of information they represented (Markels 2007). A substantial portion (if not a large majority) of new home purchases during that time period involved a fraudulent practice of dishonestly inflating the income and financial health of prospective purchasers. In many instances, the real estate brokers and mortgage brokers precipitated this type of