Economic Crises

Arkadiusz Beer
2015-12-05

For whom is this presentation

  • If you (or someone in your family) has a real estate
  • If you have mortgage (or any credit)
  • If you are working for non-media company
  • If you do not know about economic cycles

Tulip Mania (1636 - 1637)

Semper Augustus Tulip

Tulip Mania

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Tulip Mania

Tulip Mania

  • Peak price of tulip bulb was for 202 guilders
    • Typical skilled worker at that time made about 150 guilders per year
    • Today an average tulip bulb would cost around 70 000 dolars
  • 1 bulb was traded for:
    • 4 oxes, 8 swine, 12 sheep, 2 hogsheads of wine, 4 turns of beer, 1k pounds of chees, 2 tons of butter, 1 bed, clothes, wheat
    • Valued around 2k guilders
  • Traded 40 tulip bulb for 100 000 guilders
  • One Semper Augustus Tulip had been seld for 6 000 guilders
  • Sellers had made purchases on credit
  • Greater fool theory
    • The bigger fool theory

Greater fool theory

In the 20th century

Great Depression (1929 - 1932)

  • State
    • World: I World War, wrong monetary policy
    • Europe: Customs wars
    • USA: Take loan, buy stock
    • Deutsch-Polnischer Zollkrieg
  • Everyone wanted to invest

Great Depression - Black days

  • Black Thursday (24 October 1929)
    • Lost 11% on open
  • Black Monday (28 October 1929)
    • Lost 13% on close
  • Black Tuesday (29 October 1929)
    • Lost 12% on close

Great Depression - Effects of crisis

  • 1/3 of unemployment
  • Chain of bankruptcy (Kredit-Anstalt Bank)
  • 46% industrial production in USA
  • Almost all US banks has been closed

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Great Depression - Regulations

  • Financial reports every year
  • Glass-Steagall Act '33
    • Seperation of retail and investment banking
  • Government intervention
    • Hiring unemployed people by sate institutions in 1933

In the 21st century

Dot-come bubble (1995 - 2003)

  • 17 September 2001 (6 days after WTC)
  • 6,98% on one day

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Dot-come bubble

  • Pets.com
    • Interviewing people on the streets
    • Lost $147M in 9 months
  • eToys.com
    • Selling toys
    • Million of dollars spent on marketing and partnerships
    • $247M debt
  • theglobe.com
    • Social media sites
    • In IPO stocks prices jump form $9 to $97
    • Closed up in March 2007
  • Flooz.com
    • Virtual currency
    • Money-laundering scheme
    • Started in February 1999, closed on August 2001

Dot-come bubble in Poland - WIG_Info

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Dot-come bubble in Poland - Asseco Poland SA

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Dot-come bubble in Poland - CD Projekt SA

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Dot-come bubble in Poland - Comarch SA

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Dot-come bubble in Poland - Sygnity SA

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Subprime mortgage crisis 2007–2009

  • 1999 deregulation of Glass-Steagall Act
    • Merging Retail Banking with Investment Banking
  • US Federal Reserve lowers Federal funds rate 11 times
    • from 6.5% (May 2000) to 1.75% (December 2001)
    • Alan Greenspan lowers federal reserve’s key interest rate to 1% in 2003, the lowest in 45 years
  • Take credit
    • By 2008, typical US household owned 13 credit cards
    • Home ownership rate increased from 64% in 1994 to an all-time high of 69.2% in 2004

Subprime mortgage crisis - Mortgage-backed security

Subprime mortgage crisis - consequences

  • Deep recession
  • 9 million jobs in 2008
  • Housing prices fell nearly 30%
  • Stock market fell approximately 50% by 2009

Subprime mortgage crisis - consequences

  • Deep recession
  • 9 million jobs in 2008
  • Housing prices fell nearly 30%
  • Stock market fell approximately 50% by 2009

Subprime mortgage crisis - Banks

  • Bankruptcy
    • Lehman Brothers
    • Bear Stearns
  • Forced sales
    • Merrill Lynch sold to Bank of America
    • Washington Mutual sold to JP MorganChase
  • Loss of credibility in ranking for Moody's and Standard and Poor's
  • The US Federal Reserve lending program
    • Henry Paulson financial rescue plan
    • American International Group (AIG) 85 bilion dolars
    • Troubled Asset Relief Program with 700 bilion dolars

Subprime mortgage crisis - prediction mechanisms

  • Technical
    • Gaussian Copula
    • Monte Carlo Simulation
  • Fundamental
    • “There was the greatest bubble I've ever seen in my life…The entire American public eventually was caught up in a belief that housing prices could not fall dramatically” - Warren Buffett
    • “A Home Without Equity is just a Rental with Debt” -John Posner 2001 was criticizing the massive growth in home equity loans and refinancing for consumer purchases, amongst other things
    • Calling housing market a 'ponzi scheme' by Greg Lippman, Deutsche Bank in 2005
    • Robert J. Shiller gives talk about housing bubble to Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation in 2005 and writes a book about it.

Chinese stock market crash

  • 12 June 2015
  • Shanghai Stock Exchange
    • A-shares
    • B-shares
  • Causes
    • Investing with borrowed money
    • Greater fool theory
  • Drop
    • Shanghai 8,5%
    • Dow Jones next day on open 10%

Chinese stock market crash -SHANGHAI B-SHARE INDEX

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Chinese stock market crash - Shanghai Composite Index

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Chinese stock market crash - Hang Seng Index - Hong Kong

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Crisis in Poland?

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Poland comparing to European countries?

Housing market in Poland

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Thank you

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  • Title: Economic Crises
  • Author: Arkadiusz Beer