Many laws have been successful in restricting such practices in order to avoid a similar situation in the future. Today, "when a mortgage borrower wins a rescission case in court, the bank loses the right to foreclose, and has to give up all profits from interest and fees on the loan" (Carter, 2012). However, just a few years after predatory lending caused so much damage, there are already movements

" (2009) Yam states that over the past year the need existed to involve the government more deeply in the banking industry and especially in the area of deposit guarantees and in the supervision of the risk management of banks. Yam states that it is "…gratifying that so many of the tools that we have been able to rely on, including the apparatus and contingency arrangements for ensuring liquidity, have

Financial Crisis and Its Implications: Events Occurring Between 2007 and 2009 A Critical Literature Review The Roots of the Crisis Real Estate Valuation Bubble Sub-Prime Mortgages Low Interest Rates Moral Hazard in Regard to Consumer Spending Packaging Real Estate Loans as a Commodity (Derivatives) Market Interrelatedness Future Implications The financial crisis, which seemed to be elevated to its greatest extent world-wide between the years 2007 and 2009, is difficult to unravel. The causes, interlink-ages, and effects are so intertwined that

These borrowers had -- knowingly or not -- been gambling on a real estate market they did not understand. Understanding the complexities of the real estate market and fiscal policy is complicated -- those who have grown up without access to the best education and who do not have experienced friends and family to help advise them in this process were the most vulnerable. Squires, Hyra and Renner showed that

Financial crisis that emerged in 2008 came about because of a number of different factors that all contributed something to the problem. Ostensibly, this was a credit crunch. A credit crunch occurs when lender either no longer have money to lend or they are prohibited or unwilling to do so. Mussa (2008) notes a truth that Adam Smith recorded that while money is an essential part of an economy's capital stock,

In other words, there are few controls in place to ensure responsible spending or, in the case of Greece, that the books are not cooked. The implication of this is that Greece makes errors and commits fraud, knowing that the eurozone will be forced to bail them out or risk grave instability. The other nations are then forced to bail Greece out, because they share a common currency and