Subject(s): Global Financial Crisis -- Banks and banking -- Government policy -- Social responsibility of business -- Moral and ethical aspects -- Recession and depression, Shock producers and shock absorbers -- Life and credit: America has been living beyond its means, Financiers of the world capital markets, Depreciation of the dollar, Stock price, Savings glut or glut of toxic assets, Housing crisis, Monetary policy -- bank failures: German landesbanken, Lehman brothers and the collapse of interbank operations, nationalization -- Wall street : capitalism, Under-capitalised investment banks, Market, Investment bankers as soldiers of fortune , sustainability, Lemon trade -- Non resource loans. banks as gambling partners, Lottery and Clinton's law -- Securitization trick, Trick with honorarium and cash back credits, failure of the rating agencies, People's republic America -- Policy failure: Henry paulson and SEC, Modoff, Spitzeder and Ponzi, Capital ratio, Pro-cyclical effects of the mark to market methods, dynamic company valuation is also pro-cyclical, special purpose vehicles and hedge funds, Competition in Laxity, Selection principle and neoliberalism -- Bank losses to date US banks at the centre, UK, Germany, France, Switzerland , Netherlands and Belgium and Austria , Hidden write-offs, credit card problem, Graveyard insurance -- Rescue attempts : bank rescue, US package, Geithner plan , British way, Monetary policy, Keynesian recovery packages, why government should not bail out GM and Opel -- West retain its stability : Eurobonds -- Banking system : Liquidity, solvency and equity gifts, Bank hospital, Common supervisory system , Basel III and the accounting rules, Credible regulation, Executive pay, Eliminating the pro-cyclicality of the supervisory system, Special purpose vehicles and hedge funds, Glass-Steagall act, banning short sales, New businesses models for the rating agencies, non-resource claims