Just like the characters of The Big Short, its time to pick up the warning signs of a global financial crisis.
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The financial products offered by the shadow banking sector allow investors to be further removed from their investments and banks to escape regulation, increasing the risk in the sector overall.
Increased requirements from APRA could have been a good thing for Australia’s big four banks.
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Australia’s big four banks are managing risk well, this could be contributing to their strong performance.
Before he was the Republican presidential nominee, Donald Trump accepted three bars of gold bullion as payment for a 10-year lease on a building he owned.
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The people wanted reform but they got excuses, and now populism is winning.
Those living through the first Renaissance recognised that their age offered blinding possibilities, but that any gains would have to be achieved amid relentless shocks. The same is true today.
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The first Renaissance struggled with the same doubts and uncertainties and blinding possibilities that we face today. Any gains we make will have to be achieved amid relentless shocks.
Research has found Islamic banks are less risky than conventional banks.
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Islamic banks are more risk averse than conventional banks in terms of capital and mobilising funds.
All accounted for in Babylon. Belshazzar’s Feast by Rembrandt.
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The number crunchers who helped create our capitalist world have been measuring the world since ancient times.
Pleading with the EU: Italian prime minister, Matteo Renzi.
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The Italian banking system is on the verge of a crisis. Direct state intervention is needed to solve the problem.
Malcolm Turnbull sets about the business of his returned government with the Secretary of Prime Minister and Cabinet, Martin Parkinson.
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With nearly 25 years of uninterrupted economic growth at risk of coming to an end, the new government must make budget repair a priority.
The good news is the post-Brexit market movements in high-yielding currencies have been relatively benign.
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China will not be able to rescue Australia if another crisis hits.
Stock exchange traders aren’t the only ones who should be worried about global economic volatility.
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It’s increased global economic volatility that will cause the most uncertainty, rather than the election result.
Ready to surge? Iceland has wrestled itself out of recession.
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One of the worst hit countries during the financial crisis has regained economic strength inside a gilded cage – to the extent that it can now step outside, melt it down and re-sell the gold.
Wall to wall coverage. Mortgage advertising has a new pitchman.
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Is Top Cat trying to tap into our inner huckster and charlatan, or is something else going on in Halifax’s new ad campaign?
The investment risk from climate change is larger than the sub-prime collapse.
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This risk of climate-exposed investments dwarfs that of the sub-prime crisis.
Wall Street has been difficult to tame.
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Sanders and Clinton have been trading blows over who’d be best to reform Wall Street, but new research suggests they may not have the ‘authority’ to do it.
A study in resilience.
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Markets have been on a rocky ride all year on concerns another recession looms. Here are a few lessons we can learn from the last one.
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Yet another dramatisation of the events surrounding the financial crisis that leaves a sour taste and a questionable moral lesson.
Out of kilter? Deutsche’s CEO makes his pitch.
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Is the debt designed to prevent another financial crisis turning on its creators?
Suicide rates among the unemployed increased 22% during the global financial crisis.
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The longer someone is unemployed, the worse their mental health gets and this can also hinder them from finding another job, research shows.
Did Australia already have a deposit guarantee in place in 2008?
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Kevin Rudd believed he protected Australians from the global financial crisis with a bank deposit guarantee. But we already had one.
Save our foxes: another day, another protest.
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There were more protests in Britain last year than at any time since the 1970s.