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Intro -- FINANCIAL CRISIS IN AMERICA -- FINANCIAL CRISIS IN AMERICA -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- POLICY OPTIONS FOR THE HOUSING ANDFINANCIAL MARKETS -- NOTES -- PREFACE -- SECTION 1. INTRODUTION -- SECTION 2. THE CURRENT ECONOMIC SITUATION -- Economic Activity -- House Prices and Mortgage Markets -- FINANCIAL MARKETS -- Financial Markets -- Fiscal Stimulus -- Actions by the Federal Reserve -- SECTION 3. POLICY OPTIONS -- Considerations for Policymakers -- Loan Restructuring -- Proposals to Facilitate the Reduction of Mortgage Balances -- Federal Assistance to Participants in the Mortgage Market -- Recent Activity by the Federal Government and Government-Sponsored Enterprises -- Expanding the Role of the Federal Housing Administration -- Further Expanding the Role of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac -- Expanding the Role of Federal Home Loan Banks -- Increasing Federal Assistance to Community-Based Organizations -- Creating a New Agency -- REFERENCES -- Section 1 -- Section 2 -- Section 3 -- FINANCIAL CRISIS? THE LIQUIDITY CRUNCHOF AUGUST 2007 -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- HOW WE GOT HERE -- The Housing Boom and Bust -- Securitization in the Mortgage Market -- Financial Problems for Lenders -- TURMOIL IN FINANCIAL MARKETS -- Problems for Hedge Funds and Investment Banks -- The Liquidity Crunch -- The Response of Central Banks -- Why Did It Happen? -- POLICY ISSUES -- Monetary Policy in a Liquidity Crunch -- Systemic Risk and Contagion -- Could Problems in the Mortgage Market Have Been Averted? -- Financial Market Regulation -- Rating Agencies -- Financial Markets and the Real Economy -- REFERENCES -- AVERTING FINANCIAL CRISIS -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- THE UNDERLYING FINANCIAL PROBLEMS -- What Makes a Financial Crisis? -- GOVERNMENT INTERVENTIONS OPEN MARKETOPERATIONS AND MONETARY POLICY -- The Discount Window -- Term Auction Facility (TAF).

In the wake of the most significant financial crisis since the Great Depression, the President signed into law on May 20, 2009, the Fraud Enforcement and Recovery Act of 2009, creating the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission. The Commission was established to "examine the causes, domestic and global, of the current financial and economic crisis in the United States.".

The most recent developments in economy are a clear indicator of many changes, which are a result of this high rate pacing, which also demonstrates as such. Market economy processes occur as a result of intertwining of many potential technological and human factors, thereby creating a system of numerous diver-gences and turbulences. Economics, a social science, is characteri-sed with movements from a system to another system, and is har-monized with elements or components which have impacted the development and application of economic policies as a result. This example can be illustrated with the passing from a commanded system (centralized) to a self-governing (decentrali-zed) system, while the movement from a system to another is known as transi-tion. Such transition in its own nature bears a number of problems of almost any kind (political, economic, social, etc.), and is charac-terised with differences from a country to another.Financial crisis is a phenomenon consisting of a perception of economic policies and creation of an economic and financial stabi-lity in regional and global structures. From this, one may assume that each system has its own changes in its nature, and as a result of these changes, we have the crisis of such a system. Even in the economic field, if we look closely, we have such a problem, where development trends both in human and technological fields have created a large gap between older times and today, thereby crea-ting dynamics with a high intensity of action. If we dwell on the problem, and enter into the financial world, we can see that the so-called industrialized countries have made giant leaps in deve-lopment, while countries in transition have stalled in many fields, as a result of a high rate of corruption and unemployment in these countries, and obviously these indicators are directly connected, thereby stroking the financial system in these countries.Corruption is an element, which directly and indirectly influences the pro-cess of attracting foreign investment, and further influencing the growth of unemployment, and in turn expanding the financial crisis, where finances are already fragile.In the following sections, we will elaborate on the financial crisis in a global aspect, the impacts of this crisis in economic development, and the role of stock exchange in finance, thereby creating a multi-dimensional horizon of the problem.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1: Household Financial Crisis in the United States -- Chapter 2: A Snapshot of U.S. Household Finances -- Chapter 3: Financial Insecurity -- Chapter 4: The Big Picture -- Chapter 5: Runaway Spending -- Chapter 6: Necessary "Necessities"? -- Chapter 7: A Look Abroad -- Chapter 8: The Choice -- Notes -- Index -- About the Author