Large Complex Financial Institutions;
Too Big to Manage?
Too Big to Regulate?
Historical S&P 500 movement
The US subprime mortgage crisis is the latest of
many financial crises
1000 1200 1400
1600 2000 - 2002: 9-11 attack,
dotcom crash, Enron 1997 -1998:
Asian crisis (limited impact on
the US economy)
3
Source: Bloomberg, US BEA
0 mortgage crisis, global economic
recession 1979 – 1980: