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In October 2008 governments around the world chose to intervene in the markets. This 19 page paper critically evaluates the recent government interventions around the world with reference classical economic theory concentrating on Adam Smiths theories. The bibliography cites 25 sources.
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2007/8 CREDIT CRUNCH 10 4. CAUSES OF THE 2007/8 RECESSION 12 5. DISCUSSION 18 REFERENCES 20 1. Introduction In 2008 the crisis in the global financial markets came to the fore as governments had to
intervene in the markets to save large organizations and prevent severe market failure. The question is did the governments do the right thing? Should they have intervened at all, and
if they should, did they go far enough? The next section of the paper will look at the background to the issue and some of the basic arguments. To asses
this in the context of economic theory the paper will then consider the way that the current situation developed in oder to consider the causes and the problems. This is
necessary to asses the degree to which the policies adopted by government will help resolve the problems as well as the symptoms. 2. Background However, it may be argued that
this was not truly the beginning of the credit crunch, there were many warning signs that there were difficulties looming. When looking at the events it can be seen that
there were actions being taken as far back as 2007 when there were liquidity issues within the market. In August 2007 the Federal Reserve in the US extended the normal
lending period to 30 days at the same time as reducing the discount window interest rate, in the EU the European Central Bank (ECB) starting to inject more liquidity with
an initial ?94.8 billion and later the same year a further ?108.7 billion was injected (Mizen, 2008). In the UK there was a greater reluctance to intervene by the
central bank, when the major banks approach the Bank of England to increase liquidity there was an initial refusal, following this the commercial banks raised their reserve targets by 6%,
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