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2008 financial crisis
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November 2026
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Corporate finance11 min readThe 2008 crisis: markets, regulation or politics?
For a finance director, owner or finance student who is asked whose fault 2008 was. Three sources weigh the causes differently and none wins, but they overlap on thin capital, short-term funding and over-trusted credit ratings.
Ethics & corporate governance10 min readWhen is profit justified? A market failures test on 2008 and DWS
For owners reviewing how their firm makes money. Under the market failures approach, the question is whether profit comes from competition or from a gap in the market; this post tries that test on the 2008 crisis, the DWS case and an invented workshop.