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Naked Economics Chapter 12

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Chapter 12 deals with financial crises, systemic or nonsystemic, refer to the most recent crisis and how it began. Financial crisis is to a phenomenon in which an economy is characterized by a continuous and significant reduction of economic activity. Through years there have been thousands of crises occurred for various reasons, but if we focus to the one that we experience today we can say that is a result of housing asset bubble. Asset bubble occurs when there is a sudden increase in the value of bond, equities, real estate, etc. In combination with the rapid spread of subprime loans and the transfer of risk from banks' balance sheets to the public and investors through securitization, the crisis resulted in an impact in social and economical

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