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The week the crash went nuclear
Larry Elliott, 16 September 2008
It was Black Monday. Banks going bust. Stock markets in turmoil. A nosedive in the share price of Hbos, Britain's biggest mortgage lender. The brainboxes who come up with complex models of how financial markets work say that these sorts of things are supposed to happen only once in a blue moon. But at the moment it is a case of another week, another crisis.
A week ago it was the effective nationalisation of the American mortgage giants, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Yesterday, jobless bankers at Lehman Brothers were clearing their desks. With the virus spreading, there were doubts yesterday as to whether Washington Mutual,...
The week the crash went nuclear
Larry Elliott, 16 September 2008
It was Black Monday. Banks going bust. Stock markets in turmoil. A nosedive in the share price of Hbos, Britain's biggest mortgage lender. The brainboxes who come up with complex models of how financial markets work say that these sorts of things are supposed to happen only once in a blue moon. But at the moment it is a case of another week, another crisis.
A week ago it was the effective nationalisation of the American mortgage giants, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Yesterday, jobless bankers at Lehman Brothers were clearing their desks. With the virus spreading, there were doubts yesterday as to whether Washington Mutual,...
- 12/16/2009
- by Larry Elliott, Charlie Brooker, Stuart Jeffries, Gary Younge, Nancy Banks-Smith, Amelia Gentleman, Peter Bradshaw, Vic Marks
- The Guardian - Film News
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