How have each of the following topics contributed to the stock market crash of 2008 and the subsequent financial crisis and recession?

The Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act of 1999
Housing Bubble
Short Selling
Buying on Margin
Subprime/adjustable rate mortgages

Thank you!

The GLB Act repealed the Glass-Steagall Act of 1932 and allowed commercial banks to behave like investment banks.

Teh Housing Bubble started in 2007 when those who couldn’t afford mortgages were given adjustable rate mortgage ARM and eventually foreclosed.

Short Selling is a Wall Street technique to take advantage of a stock going down and it’s a bet that stocks would go down further

Buying on a margin I think is a hedge bet

Subprime/adjustable rates change if the mortgage taker fails to pay on time.

One Response to “Help on current economic crisis and stock market crash of 2008 questions?”

  • mac says:

    The GLB Act repealed the Glass-Steagall Act of 1932 and allowed commercial banks to behave like investment banks.

    Teh Housing Bubble started in 2007 when those who couldn’t afford mortgages were given adjustable rate mortgage ARM and eventually foreclosed.

    Short Selling is a Wall Street technique to take advantage of a stock going down and it’s a bet that stocks would go down further

    Buying on a margin I think is a hedge bet

    Subprime/adjustable rates change if the mortgage taker fails to pay on time.
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