The Mortgage Crisis

Paper Summary:

This paper analyzes and discusses the causes of the current economic and financial crisis in the US. The writer cites poor risk management and too much confidence in the market as some of the underlying causes of the current economic crisis and explains why this is so. The writer also provides his own opinions on the economy and argues that we are heading for an economic recession. The writer also suggests that, perhaps, the current mortgage and real estate crisis is just a consequence of the growing recession trend over the economy in its entirety.

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"In terms of confidence, the current crisis follows a period when money was cheap and when there was a great supply of cash on the market. With the 2000 stock market crash and the terrorist attacks on 9/11 and the immediate recession that followed at a global level, Alan Greenspan, then Federal Reserve chairman, opted for a policy of interest rate cuts with the objective of resuming economic growth and stimulating investments in the economy."

Sample of Sources Used:

• LaMonica, Paul. 5 ways to know if the bull is over. CNN Money.com. On the Internet at http://money.cnn.com/galleries/2007/moneymag/0708/gallery.how_youll_know.moneymag/6.html. Last retrieved on September 30, 2007
• Tully, Shawn. Risk returns with a vengeance. Fortune Magazine. August 2007. On the Internet at http://money.cnn.com/2007/08/17/markets/risk_returns.fortune/index.htm?postversion=2007082312. Last retrieved on September 30, 2007

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