Essays on Financial Crisis

Influenced by the earlier 2007 financial crisis that originated in the USA housing market, the subsequent eurozone crisis happened in 2009 in Greece and then spread to Spain, Italy, Cyprus, and other eurozone counties, triggering the European debt crisis. However, external aid and internal austerity...

The Wall Street Crash of 1929 is known to have been the cause of one of the world’s greatest financial crises’. In ninth grade, one of the topics that was discussed in my history class was World War 2. The one thing that stood out...

It was not the downturn within the commerce cycle, exchange protectionism, or the 1929 stock market crash that dove the nation to misery. It was the collapse of the banking system amid three waves of panics over the 1930-33 period. After the market crashed, certainty...

The Occupy Wall Street movement of 2011 was a protest where, in simple terms, the poor rose up against the rich. It was a protest movement that demanded change and in turn sparked the restructuring of American political views on economic inequality for years to...

The Occupy Wall Street (OWS) Movement defined the year of 2011 as a catalyst of political unrest and change. Thousands of passionate Americans marched across the country to express their dissatisfaction and distrust of the country’s big banks, corporations and politicians. With the rallies ultimately...

The 2000s was a tough for the Portuguese economy. With an expansion fiscal policy in place the Portuguese economy recovered post global recession. But the eurozone crisis occurred and prevented more capital inflows from coming in. A recession materialized over Portugal as a financial assistance...

The predominant rhetoric about 2014 Ukraine crisis oscillate on blaming Russian aggression, be it in Western media or academia. The argument here is, that Vladimir Putin acting as a new tsar perpetuating the long-standing desire to resuscitate the Soviet empire by annexing Crimea. After Crimeans...

Ukrainian inflation levels fluctuate in very unpredictable manners which can be seen throughout its history. As in 1993 where the inflation level was at 4.73 thousand percent which then dropped to -0.235 percent by the beginning of 2013. Currently, the inflation levels in Ukraine are...

This research paper will touch upon Sudanese crackdown. The paper will aim at analyzing the current situation happening in the country, consequences which led to this crackdown, and lastly, possible solutions to resolve the situation. In order to find the best solutions, this research will...

The purpose and focus of this essay is to compare the causes the Ireland and Iceland financial crises, and how these respective countries introduced fiscal policies and regulations to resolve themselves. Both banking crises coincided with the collapse of the US sub-prime mortgage market which...