The presentation summarizes the 2008 global financial crisis. It discusses how Iceland's deregulation of its banking sector led to excessive risk-taking and the collapse of its three largest banks. The presentation then outlines the role of US financial engineering and the growth of collateralized debt obligations in fueling the US housing bubble. It describes how risky mortgage lending practices, failures of large investment banks like Lehman Brothers, and the inability of AIG to pay out on insured debt obligations led to the crisis and subsequent global recession.
3. Presented to International Business Class
Instructor: Sir Imran Bashir
World Recession 2008
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4. Presented by:
Muhammad Asad Bin Asif
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Muhammad Zeeshan Azam
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Hassan Shafiq
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5. Opening
Case
The Iceland Scenario
Iceland was stable
Multinational corporations: Alcoa installed their
business
Icelands various provision deregulations
Privatization of banks
Lax requirement on bank loans
Three the largest banks combined to borrow 10
times Iceland's total GDP
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6. Operations of Banks
Jon Asgeir Johannesson, Borrowing billions of
dollars
Jon purchased yacht and a private jet
invested outside iceland
Iceland being drained of financial resources
Shock
Banks got Bankrupt
Market crashed
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9. Background
During the forty years of economic growth in the
United States, investment banks were small
Investment banks going public
Financial sector progressed
From 1978-2008, the average salary in investment
banking increased
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11. Reagan Administration of U.S.
Financial deregulation U.S. in early 1980s
In Late 1980s workers of financial sector were going
to jail
During 1990s,internet stocks worth to $5t - were
lost.
Eliot Spitzer, investigation internet crisis
Investment banks promoting stocks likely to fail
Ten investment banks outside settlement of $1.4b
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12. Financial Engineering
A new field of study
Derivatives developed
A well-known derivative is an option
Invest options trade options
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13. Collateral Debt Obligations
There are five positions, in sequential order in
the chain.
Home buyers
lenders
Investment banks
Investors
Insurance companies
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16. The largest financial bubble in history.
Countrywide Financial issued nearly $100b in
mortgage loans.
Traded debts through securitization chain and
earning massive sums
The Lehman Brothers, Richard Fuld, given
$500m in bonuses
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17. Martin Wolf, Chief Economics Commentator for The Financial
Times adds
It wasnt real profits, it wasnt real income.Two, three
years down the road theres a default its all wiped out. I
think, in recollection, its been a great bigglobal Ponzi
scheme.
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18. The Investment Bankers and Insurance
AIG promised to cover the costs on the insured
CDOs
They did not have the money to do so.
Paying over $3b in corporate bonuses during this
period.
Investment bankers spent on luxury: jets, yachts,
mansions, and vacation homes, as well as drugs.
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21. The Federal Reserve System ignored warnings from
Raguram Rajan of the IMF
Domnique Strauss-Kahn of the IMF,
Nouriel Roubini of New York University
Allan Sloan of Fortune Magazine.
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22. Accountability of the Loss recorded
Lehman Brothers reports recorded losses and stock
collapse.
Numerous investment firms rated double and triple A
before collapse
The risky mortgages ripped to bankruptcies.
Bear Stears acquired by J.P. Morgan: 2 dollars per share.
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, acquired by the US
government
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24. After Crisis Effects:
The United States declined, through wealth gaps
and outsourcing.
Manufacturing jobs were diminishing
Chinas unemployment hiked
Information technology jobs were abundant; but
required educated people
Tax policies in U.S. favored the wealthy
Wealth inequality was the highest in the United
States
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25. Resources
Junk Mortgages under Microscope by Allan
Sloan Fortune Magazine October 16, 2007
Has Financial Development made the world
Riskier by Raghurar G. Rajan
Why Central Banks Should Burst Bubbles by
Nouriel Roubini
Whos holding the Bag? May 2007 Pershing
Square Capital Management, L.P.
Inside Job a Documentary film by Andri
Magnason
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