Fastest pace since 2007
Investors’ “relentless” appetite for juicy returns has triggered the biggest boom on Wall Street in complex financial products since the lead-up to the global financial crisis in 2007.
The global volume of structured finance transactions has hit $380bn this year
Still, analysts say the size of the market is small enough to avoid creating systemic risk.
Financial Times 9 December 2024
https://www.ft.com/content/5219f962-3499-4928-8c73-5610b7a0109e
On Thursday August 9 2007, financial markets suddenly seized up.
Gillian Tett
https://englundmacro.blogspot.com/2021/03/on-thursday-august-9-2007-financial.html
Watch Out: Wall Street Is Finding New Ways to Slice and Dice Loans
https://englundmacro.blogspot.com/2024/10/wall-street-new-ways-to-slice-and-dice.html
Japan’s 1989 property-and-equity bubble or the pre-2007 housing-and-structured-debt bubble.
Britain’s 1846 Railway Mania
James Mackintosh
https://englundmacro.blogspot.com/2020/09/britains-1846-railway-mania.html
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