1 Year After The Falls - Part I: Banks

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From: BBC
Global recession timeline
BBC's full coverage of the anniversary of the global financial meltdown

How did the credit crunch at the end of 2007 become a full financial meltdown by the middle of 2008, and finally turn into a global recession?
This interactive timeline highlights key dates in the financial collapse and helps you find the original reports of the events as they happened.




The Big Get Bigger



From: WSJ
The Fed’s balance sheet expanded again in the latest week, rising to $2.125 trillion from $2.072 trillion, but the increase came primarily from purchases of mortgage-backed securities, Treasurys and agency debt




Opinion: If banks get more deposits meaning they could make more loans. In other words, credit market is evolving eventually, thus businesses would be able to raise more capital investing in news projects, creating more jobs, and so on. The end of the way, economies are better off and people smile :).

Here is a chart help by FusionCharts Gadget with data from SEC Edgar:

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