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  • you're watching Video vocab by business English part dot com The global economic meltdown The news today is full of stories about the financial crisis and recession.

  • The complex problems behind this crisis have given rise to a whole new vocabulary.

  • So today we're going to explore the language you've been hearing every day in the news.

  • First we'll hear a short article introducing the vocabulary.

  • Then we'll go over each word in detail with some example sentences to show how you can use the words At the end of the video, you'll have a chance to review and practice your new vocabulary.

  • The global economic meltdown that has led to a worldwide recession started with a credit crunch in the U.

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  • Banking industry.

  • This tightening of credit, particularly loans between banks, was in turn related to problems with subprime mortgages.

  • The banks had bought and sold a securities known a CDO.

  • The US government's first response to the economic crisis was to bail out the banks with TARP short for troubled asset relief program.

  • TARP was aimed at helping banks get rid of some of the now toxic assets they were holding.

  • Now we'll go through each word in detail with some example sentences to show you how the vocabulary can be used.

  • Meltdown, financial meltdown, economic meltdown.

  • The term meltdown is used in economics to describe a severe and often sudden deterioration of financial institutions or assets, resulting in huge financial loss.

  • The financial meltdown in the United States is the worst economic crisis since the stock market crash of 1929.

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  • Experienced a meltdown in sales as rumors of their possible bankruptcy grew.

  • Recession, recession a recession is a period of economic decline.

  • Economists usually define a recession as two or more quarters of negative economic growth.

  • Many people are blaming the increased unemployment rate on the current recession.

  • Credit crunch credit crunch.

  • Also known as the credit squeeze or credit crisis.

  • The credit crunch describes a situation where banks reduce the availability of loans or credit to customers as well as other banks due to the increased risk of not being repaid.

  • The credit crunch has moved the banks to tighten the conditions required to obtain a loan or line of credit.

  • Subprime mortgage subprime mortgage, a mortgage is a loan for a house or property.

  • Subprime refers to the low credit worthiness of the borrower.

  • So a subprime mortgage is a housing loan given to people with poor credit histories.

  • Due to our low credit rating, we can only qualify for a subprime mortgage securities securities.

  • A security is a certificate of ownership for stocks, bonds or other financial assets.

  • Stocks and bonds are two types of securities that are traded on the stock exchange.

  • Securitization securitization.

  • The term securitization refers to the process by which an institution, usually a bank, turn something into a security which is then assigned a value and traded.

  • The securitization of subprime mortgages helped initiate the credit crunch.

  • Collateralized debt obligations.

  • Si Dios.

  • These are securities backed by a variety of fixed income assets, usually packages of mortgages with different levels of risk.

  • When the subprime crisis intensified, many mortgage backed CDOs became toxic.

  • Financial bailout, Financial bailout in everyday language.

  • To bail a person out means to help someone out of a difficult situation.

  • A financial bailout is an act of giving financial assistance to a failing business to save it from collapse, Theo U.

  • S government has recently funded a huge bailout of the banking industry.

  • The U.

  • S auto industry has recently been bailed out by the Government Troubled Asset Relief Program, or TARP, also known as the Wall Street bailout bill.

  • Top was an attempt to strengthen the financial sector by buying toxic assets and equity or shares from major financial institutions.

  • The public has started questioning the benefits of TARP due to the massive cost and behavior of the banks.

  • Toxic assets, toxic debt, toxic means, poisonous or harmful toxic assets are high risk debts that are unlikely to be repaid to lenders.

  • The toxic assets held by banks have severely affected their balance sheets.

  • Now it's your turn to practice some of the words we have studied in this episode you'll hear a Siris of sentences with the word blanked out or replaced with a B Repeat the whole sentence.

  • But say the missing would, for example, if you here.

  • Despite the credit, uh, they managed to get a mortgage at reasonable rates.

  • You should say, despite the credit crunch, they managed to get a mortgage at reasonable rates.

  • Will play an example.

  • Answer after each exercise.

  • Are you ready?

  • Let's begin.

  • GM experienced a in sales as rumors of their possible bankruptcy grew.

  • Answer.

  • GM experienced a meltdown in sales as rumors of their possible bankruptcy grew due to our low credit rating, we can Onley qualify for ah mortgage answer due to our low credit rating.

  • Weaken Onley qualify for a subprime mortgage Bank balance sheets have been severely affected by the amount of assets they're holding.

  • Answer.

  • Bank balance sheets have been severely affected by the amount of toxic assets they're holding.

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金融英語詞彙 - 全球經濟危機 (Financial English Vocabulary - Global Economic Crisis)

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