The cause of the 2008 financial crisis - excessive leverage
As I mentioned in my previous blog, leveraging is a common practice for investment banks, but excessive leverage combined with other factors can lead to disaster. From the figure , we can clearly see that the banking industry and the whole market were too high during the financial crisis in 2008, which was also one of the factors that triggered the financial crisis this year. Source: Wikipedia One view is that after 2000, when interest rates were low, the capital was abundant, but fixed yields were low, investors used borrowed money to boost returns, and deregulation (see chart) increased demand for borrowing, allowing banks to leverage up to attract more investors. At the same time, excessive leverage magnified the effects of the anti-property downturn and deleveraging led to a tightening of bank credit markets. Source: CARMASSI, J., et al. (2009). "The Global Financial Crisis: Causes and Cures*." JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies 47 (5): 977-996. Some ar