ECON 2 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Government Budget Balance, Mutual Fund, Autarky

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Lec 4, 5 - saving, investment, and the financial. Examples: bond market (certificate of indebtedness) and stock market (claim to partial ownership in a firm financial intermediaries: institutions through which savers can indirectly provide funds to borrowers. Examples: banks, mutual funds (institutions that sell shares to the public and use the proceeds to buy portfolios of stocks & bonds) Elements of financial crises: large decline in some asset prices. 2008 - 2009: housing prices fell 30% insolvencies at financial institutions. 2008 - 2009: banks & other institutions failed when many homeowners stopped paying their mortgages. 2008 - 2009: customers with uninsured deposits began pulling their funds out of financial institutions. 2008 - 2009: borrowers unable to get loans because troubled lenders not confident in borrowers" credit-worthiness. 2008 - 2009: failing financial institutions and a fall in investment caused. 2008 - 2009: the downturn reduced profits and asset values which worsened the crisis.

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