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The global financial crisis

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Which of the following was a key cause of the 2007-09 Global Financial Crisis?

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Edexcel Economics B (9EB0) Theme 4 'Making markets work' (Paper 1), Unit T4-4 'Risk and the financial sector' — spec ref 4.5.4. This is the THIRD and FINAL lesson of Unit T4-4, and the LAST lesson of the whole of Theme 4 (Paper 1). Students apply everything from T4-4a (risk, moral hazard) and T4-…

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Lesson outline

  1. Do Now — Retrieval
  2. Hinge Check — Everyday Word, Technical Meaning
  3. The Causes of the Crisis
  4. Hinge Check — What Securitisation Actually Did
  5. Quick Check — Moral Hazard and 'Too Big to Fail'
  6. The Credit Crunch
  7. Quick Check — Systemic Risk
  8. Timeline — How the Crisis Unfolded
  9. Hinge Check — Lehman vs Northern Rock
  10. Policy Responses
  11. Quick Check — Quantitative Easing
  12. Hinge Check — What Ring-Fencing Does NOT Mean
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