09/10/2008
By Lahem al Nasser
Riyadh, Asharq Al-Awsat - The mortgage crisis in America continues to dominate the international media as the aftershocks of this crisis continue to take its observers by surprise on a daily basis from the nationalization of the two mortgage companies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and the bankruptcy of the Lehman Brothers, which has been declared the biggest bankruptcy in American history, to the US government’s take over of 80 per cent of the stocks of the AIG insurance company in return for a $85 billion loan to strengthen the company’s liquidity.
The latest of these reverberations, but certainly not the last, was the collapse of Washington Mutual, which was sold to JP Morgan after it fell under the control of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, a government institution that insures customer deposits in banks and financial institutions in the United States.
This crisis has broken many of the principles of economic liberalism that America has advocated just as it also proved that leaving everything to the regulations of the market without control and oversight leads to catastrophes striking the heart of the macro economy as a result of the unruly desir

























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