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| Title: | | Global Financial Crisis: A Minskyan interpretation of the causes, the Fed's bailout, and the future  |
| Authors: | | Wray, L. Randall |
| Issue Date: | | 2012 |
| Series/Report no.: | | Working paper, Levy Economics Institute 711 |
| Abstract: | | This paper provides a quick review of the causes of the Global Financial Crisis that began in 2007. There were many contributing factors, but among the most important were rising inequality and stagnant incomes for most American workers, growing private sector debt in the United States and many other countries, financialization of the global economy (itself a very complex process), deregulation and desupervision of financial institutions, and overly tight fiscal policy in many nations. The analysis adopts the stages approach developed by Hyman P. Minsky, according to which a gradual transformation of the economy over the postwar period has in many ways reproduced the conditions that led to the Great Depression. The paper then moves on to an examination of the US government's bailout of the global financial system. While other governments played a role, the US Treasury and the Federal Reserve assumed much of the responsibility for the bailout. A detailed examination of the Fed's response shows how unprecedented - and possibly illegal - was its extension of the government's safety net to the biggest financial institutions. The paper closes with an assessment of the problems the bailout itself poses for the future. |
| Subjects: | | Hyman Minsky global financial crisis financialization money manager capitalism bank bailout quantitative easing financial crisis inquiry report fraud Minsky moment real estate bubble MERS federal reserve |
| JEL: | | B31 E30 E32 E50 G21 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | Working Papers, Levy Economics Institute of Bard College
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