sellingthem asmortgage-backed securities. It also maintains its ownportfolioof mortgage-backed securities. With the collapse of the housing bubble, Fannie Mae was placed in federalreceivershipin 2008 as a result ofoverexposureto thismarket. See also:Freddie Mac,Community Reinvestment Act,Credit crunch...
The Deputy Chairman of the Committee on Financial and Economic Affairs in the Shura Council Habib Makki Hashim said that the Kingdom has overcome most of the difficult economic circumstances which began with the financial crunch and its repercussions on the movement of capital and the banking sector...
Just look at the men who claim to be financially independent, yet are unwilling to let their working wives join them in retirement. Some will even get on podcasts and not even recognize their wive's income contributions. With so much fear about being financially independent, these folks won't...
in terms of physically, in terms of terror, in terms of financially, the credit crunch, rising food prices; all this is survive, survive, survive. —
If I had to make one suggestion to someone working on a financial independence spreadsheet, it would be do numbers in today’s terms. If you crunch the numbers in absolute terms then it becomes ridiculously messy and prone to error. For example you can guess what state pension you will ...
I remember hearing, in the first few months following the bankrupcy of Lehman Brothers, credit crisis or credit crunch a lot on Wake Up to Money, which, as its wikipage claims, " is an early morning financial radio programme on BBCRadio 5 Live."When one hears the term financial crisis,...
This was a financial tsunami without precedent in contemporary times. The crunch also illustrated a vulnerability in the internationalized economy of the West. In 2009 the crisis was contesting the very fabric of the European economic system and was posing an existential threat to the Euro, the ...
Another and more modern example is the subprime crisis that began in 2007, which was caused by securitization of speculative mortgages and secondary markets related thereto, which at first stage caused widespread credibility gap between banks (i.e. credit crunch), and then later spread across the...
If there is a bank holiday, there will be both a credit crunch driving deflation (which means you can probably get more for that nickel during this phase) and inflation of real assets and necessities. People with cash on hand will be able to stock up on food unless the supermarkets are ...
That's a hefty piece of change. Stuxnet stole its certs, it didn't crunch them. But it could have ... and Flame and Stuxnet both came from the same people, for the same purpose. It is hypothesized that Flame exfiltrated the data and Stuxnet zeroed in on the target with Flame's int...