The housing bubble that burst and triggered the 2007-08 global financial crisis was fuelled by securitisation.
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There were 6,566 more suicides in the 2008-09 period that were a direct consequence of the rapid decline of equity values.
It's when times are good that the seeds of the next financial crisis are sown.
What looks from the outside like a domestic currency crash is in fact something far more dangerous.
Some US$4.6 trillion has been made available to stave off financial crises across the world. The problem is that much of this funding is now spoken for, and the list of stricken nations is growing.
The Dow Jones is on a rollercoaster. But don't panic.
Interest among financial institutions in bitcoin derivatives contracts highlights worrying reminders of the not-too-distant past.
Brexit, bots and jobs and bitcoin are set to dominate economics news in 2018.
How can we sort out the crisis of contemporary democracy?
The sub-imperial formation called BRICS, which pretends to be a progressive global force could be divided by a series of crises.
Republicans are hoping to eliminate or at least defang the only federal agency tasked solely with protecting consumers from financial abuses. What would we miss if they succeed?
Why does the Chair of the Federal Reserve believe there won't be another financial crisis in our lifetimes?
Instead, we need to burn the entire system of financial regulation to the ground and replace it with something that supports investing the way it's done today.
The Chinese government is doing its best to stop China's bad loan problem from blowing up.
Before the financial crisis struck, you could breathe the overwhelming air of prosperity on the bustling streets of Trikala.
The world needs an alternative system, measuring economic value in face of the dissatisfaction that brought Donald Trump to the White House.
The BRICS bloc of states have resolved to establish an alternative credit rating agency to counter western dominance in the financial markets. Will it work?
The risk following recently ended economic booms in Africa is that, due to insufficient planning and excessive optimism, the windfalls were wasted. But there are signs that Africa may be changing.
George Kerevan, Stephen Boyd and Katherine Trebeck see a world where employees are treated like just-in-time inventory.
A number of novels provide links between risk-assessment, financial speculation, and terrorism. But simultaneously, real life terror in 2016 renders writing about it completely and utterly pointless.
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Principal Research Fellow, Research & Policy Centre, Brotherhood of St Laurence, and Honorary Principal Fellow, University of Melbourne
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SARCHI Professor of International Development Law and African Economic Relations, University of Pretoria
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Professor and Director of The Nelson Mandela School of Public Governance, University of Cape Town
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Professor of Finance, Washington University in St Louis
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Principal and Vice Chancellor, University of Glasgow
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Full Professor of Political Economy, University of Pretoria
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Professor of Political Economy, University of the Witwatersrand
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