The Anatomy of Global Financial Crisis: A Comprehensive Analysis

Abstract

The topic of this article is an analysis of the 2008 Financial Crisis and its inspiration for the complicated economy under COVID-19 and the Russia-Ukraine conflict. The background of this article is that uncertainty and fluctuation occur frequently in the global macroeconomic and 2022s economic Nobel Prize draws attention to the research of financial crisis. The article will introduce the cause of the 2008 Financial Crisis in 3 aspects: Feds monetary policy, subprime mortgages, and credit default swaps. Then it will come to the consequence of the 2008 Financial Crisis with several exact examples. After that, changes due to the 2008 Financial Crisis will be introduced from 2 dimensions, which are Dodd-Frank Act and Basel III. That section also discusses the application of certain regulation or rules and their influence on the post-crisis era. In conclusion part, this article will show the significance of the 2008 Financial Crisis and its application to todays economic problems under a complex external environment.