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2008 economic crisis
Video: How will rate rises affect MENA debt servicing?
As the decade-long era of cheap money ushered in by the collapse of Lehman Brothers and the onset of the global economic crisis in 2008 draws to a close, the oil importers of the Middle East will have to contend with a toxic combination of onerous debt loads and rising interest rates.
2008 economic crisis
Video: Lehman’s legacy – ten years on, have the lessons been learned?
A decade after the cataclysmic collapse of Lehman Brothers sparked the global financial crisis, have the lessons been learned?
2008 financial crisis
Escaping Lehman’s shadow: Are regulators doing enough to avoid another maelstrom?
Opinion: Financial markets around the world were swept into turmoil when Lehman Brothers collapsed in 2008. But, asks Edward Bonham Carter, are regulators doing enough to avoid another maelstrom?
2008 financial crisis
Lehman’s legacy: Ten years on, have the lessons been learned?
A decade after the cataclysmic collapse of Lehman Brothers sparked the global financial crisis, have the lessons been learned?
2008 financial crisis
Video: History Repeating – The financial crisis 10 years on
A decade after the financial crisis struck the globe, the US continues to accumulate growing mountains of debt while interest rates are being raised every single month. Could history be repeating itself?
Ben Bernanke
Bernanke admits Fed made mistakes combating crisis 10 years ago
Former Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke singled out the panic that engulfed the financial system as the key reason for the depth of the recession back then
Angel Gurria
Lehman collapse: Economists should have predicted the crisis, says OECD chief
Mainstream economic thinking and the models it was based on did not reflect the reality either of the economy or people’s life, said Angel Gurria