Investors were on the lookout for new, post-technology bubble investment opportunities, which they found in the form of loans to high-risk homebuyers, known as subprime mortgages. During this ...

the subprime crisis brought to light broader weaknesses. To deal with those weaknesses, several issues need to be considered. First, the effectiveness of applying industry standards and any existing ...

As a nation, we had to pay for our indiscretions, resulting in five consequences due to the subprime mortgage crisis ... usual household expenses. This information is indicative of the effects ...

We develop a methodology to study how the subprime crisis spills over to the real economy. Does it manifest itself primarily through reducing consumer demand or through tightening liquidity constraint ...

The Global Financial Crisis of 2007-2008 was widely blamed on the subprime crisis and its fallout, which led to the collapse of Lehman Brothers in 2008, with the US government forced to bail out ...

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac had used leverage to take on more than $5 trillion loan guarantees during this period and suffered incredible losses as a result of the subprime crisis. In fact ...

Di Tella, Rafael, Alberto Cavallo, and Aldo Sesia. "Hank and Nancy: The Subprime Crisis, the Run on Lehman and the Shadow Banks, and the Decision to Bail Out Wall Street." Harvard Business School Case ...

The 2008 global financial crisis was caused by bankers in the United States giving subprime mortgages to people on shaky financial footing and then selling them off as investments, fuelling a ...