financial crisis

Examples of financial crisis in the following topics:

• Politics and the Great Recession of 2008

  • Global political instability is rising fast due to the global financial crisis and is creating new challenges that need to be managed.
  • This addition reflects the assessment of United States intelligence agencies that the global financial crisis presents a serious threat to international stability.
  • Several causes of the financial crisis have been proposed, with varying weights assigned by experts.
  • Research into the causes of the financial crisis has also focused on the role of interest rate spreads.
  • Prompted by the financial crisis in Latvia, the opposition and trade unions there organized a rally against the cabinet of premier Ivars Godmanis.

• Party Realignments, Dealignments, and Tipping

  • Bush, whose administration was now faced with a financial crisis and economic recession.
  • Bush, whose administration was now faced with a financial crisis and economic recession.

• The Public Debt

  • Less creditworthy countries sometimes borrow directly from a supranational organization (the World Bank) or international financial institutions.
  • In addition, a risk-free status implicitly assumes the stability of the US government and its ability to continue repayments during any financial crisis.

• The Shifting Boundary between Federal and State Authority

  • Any state that lost highway funding for any extended period would face financial impoverishment, infrastructure collapse, or both.
  • Although the first such action (the enactment of a national speed limit) was directly related to highways and done in the face of a fuel shortage, most subsequent actions have had little or nothing to do with highways and have not been done in the face of any compelling national crisis.

• Economic Prosperity

  • The United States government voted 700 billion in bailout money, committed trillions of dollars to shoring up the financial system, but the measures did not reverse the declines.
  • By late 2008, distress was spreading beyond the financial and housing sectors.
  • Cuts to the military and defense spending have been threatened, and this economic crisis will undoubtedly take a toll on the United State's position as a global superpower.

• Oil

  • In the 1970s, the U.S. faced an oil crisis, with severe shortages leaving lineups at gas stations across the country .
  • The crisis was set off at least in part because of oil embargoes levied by OAPEC (Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries), and conflicts in Libya.
  • The oil crisis contributed to recessions in the country.

• Issue Identification and Agenda Building

  • Those issues that withstand any significant crisis, though, will move onto the next stage of the policy process, formulation.
  • The BP oil spill is an example of a crisis that changed the national policy agenda by reversing Obama's planned policy to loosen restrictions on coastal drilling.

• The International Monetary Structure

  • The IMF keeps account of the international balance of payments accounts of member states, but also lends money as a last resort for members in financial distress.
  • The social democratic view challenges the liberal view, advocating for the tempering of market mechanisms and the institution of economic safeguards in an attempt to ensure financial stability and redistribution.
  • Besides the liberal and social democratic views, neo-Marxists are highly critical of the modern financial system in that it promotes inequality between state players, particularly holding the view that the wealthier countries abuse the financial system to exercise control of developing countries' economies.
  • The most important American contribution to the global financial system is perhaps the introduction of the Bretton Woods system.
  • The Bretton Woods system of monetary management, created at a conference in 1944, established the rules for commercial and financial relations among the world's major industrial states in the mid-20th century.

• The 2012 Presidential Election

  • The economic crisis, the growing deficit, and America's longest undeclared war were the biggest obstacles to Obama's re-election.
  • The major policy issues at stake in the 2012 election were: the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and health care reform; the ongoing economic crisis; tax reform; women's rights; and American foreign policy.

• The Changing Federal Role in the Economy

  • This was largely in response to a series of financial panics, particularly a severe panic in 1907.
  • Its duties have expanded over the years, and today, according to official Federal Reserve documentation, include conducting the nation's monetary policy, bank regulation, maintaining the stability of the financial system and providing financial services to depository institutions, the U.S. government, and foreign official institutions.