Wednesday, Feb 20, 2008

12 Steps to Financial Disaster

FT: America’s economy risks mother of all meltdowns

This article discusses Prof Nouriel Roubinis '12 steps to financial disaster', which describes the sequence of events that he thinks will lead from 'Step 1: the worst housing recession in US history' to 'Step 12: a vicious circle of losses, capital reduction, credit contraction, forced liquidation and fire sales of assets at below fundamental prices'...

Posted by henscu @ 12:39 PM (416 views) Add Comment

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1. drewster said...

This was posted earlier:
http://www.housepricecrash.co.uk/newsblog/2008/02/blog-steps-to-financial-disaster-10605.php
For non-FT subscribers, try here: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ft/20080219/bs_ft/fto021920081334359078

Out of his 12 Steps, Nouriel Roubini notes "Step six would be bankruptcy of a large regional or national bank". Northern Rock, anyone?

Wednesday, February 20, 2008 01:57PM Report Comment
 

2. mark wadsworth said...

Yup, Martin Wolf has delivered up what can only be described as 'house price crash porn'. Gratuitous, pointless, but highly enjoyable in a morbid sort of way.

Wednesday, February 20, 2008 02:12PM Report Comment
 

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