Sameer Jain

Global Financial Crisis Sameer Jain

This study examines over 1.2 million data points to take the reader into the eye of the storm. It explores financial markets & conditions prevailing during Q4-2008. It highlights government actions, economic outlook and policy implications during the period. It brings attention to government rescue measures. It brings attention to the state of European banking as the contagion spread from the United States. It concludes with historical lessons and case studies in financial sector restructuring. The findings are presented by way of over 200 charts, graphics, data points and is largely devoid of opinion. It brings a fact based, data driven approach to explaining conditions as they exactly existed during the height of the financial crisis and does not rely on the benefit of twenty-twenty hindsight.