Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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15 September 2008: The global megabank of Lehman Brothers on...
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15 September 2008
The global megabank of Lehman Brothers
on Wall Street filed for bankruptcy, bringing the world financial system to the brink of collapse.
Luyendijk, Joris. “It’s business as usual in our banking system”. Guardian Weekly, 23 Oct. 2015, pp. 26-9.
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25 September 2008: In the biggest bank failure yet in US history,...
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25 September 2008
In the biggest bank failure yet in US history, Washington Mutual
went into receivership. Its customers had withdrawn $16.7 billion in ten days.
Lanchester, John. “Cityphobia”. London Review of Books, Vol.
30
, No. 20, 23 Oct. 2008, pp. 3-5.
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Luyendijk, Joris. “It’s business as usual in our banking system”. Guardian Weekly, 23 Oct. 2015, pp. 26-9.
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31 October 2008: Only weeks after the global financial crisis...
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31 October 2008
Only weeks after the global financial crisis precipitated by the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers
and near-collapse of other US investment banks, the digital currency system Bitcoin
was launched by someone using the fictitious name of...
