Word: spiraling
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Load” helped spread their proggish brand of thrash throughout American suburbia and beyond. After putzing around with old garage tracks—some great covers of Blue Oyster Cult and Bob Seger are mixed in there—they took a downward spiral into Napster-hating, rehab, and the unforgivably abysmal “St. Anger”. (Remember that movie about the making of “St. Anger,” “Some Kind of Monster?” It’s kind of like watching a documentary about your house burning down...
...economy cause problems in the financial markets because hard-pressed consumers and businesses have trouble repaying their loans. But this time - for the first time since the Great Depression - problems in the financial markets are slowing the economy rather than the other way around. If the economy continues to spiral down, that could cause a second dip in the financial system - and we're having serious trouble dealing with the first...
...croaked, all the players who thought they had their bets hedged would suddenly have "unbalanced books." That could lead to firms other than AIG failing, which could lead to still more firms failing, which could lead to what economists call "systemic failure." Or, in plain terms, a financial death spiral in which firms suck one another into the abyss...
...market’s downward spiral reflects a larger atmosphere of worry in light of the collapse and liquidation of Lehman Brothers and the sale of Merrill Lynch to Bank of America at the beginning of the week...
...over when in fact each writeoff was exacerbating the situation. If they were writing down the value of their subprime related investments and raising capital, then didn't everyone have to do the same? And once that happened, the market for this stuff would get even thinner, requiring a spiral of writedowns. It has become a field day for short sellers, who are picking off the undercapitalized financial outfits...