financial crisis

So I am working on this project where Burma, Thailand and Malaysia undergo rapid economic transformation and become tiger economies. The divergences mostly happen after 1948. All your help would be appreciated ^^. For Burma, I'm thinking of perhaps not assassinating Aung San. He was the face...

The 1980s saw the big boom of financialization, which was a massive part in the shift in manfacturing in America, the rise of corporate raiders and the various decisions that led to the decline of various major chains along with aligning with the trends of Wall Street and so on. What would've...

I know this is relatively recent history, but just to set the stage for this DBWI thought experiment I'll recap the past 20 or so years of US history. In 2000, after a nail-biting election campaign, Vice-President John Kerry defeated George W. Bush and became the 43rd American President. Kerry...

Is it plausible for a major world power to not go back to the gold standard after WW1, or to leave it during the 1920s? This could make the Great Depression less disastrous and change the way that international trade and the web of debts between the western powers worked in the interwar period...

Here is my question today. In a version of history where the US had stricter campaign finance laws (say with a no-Watergate or similar POD), is it probable that the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act and Great Recession might still happen around the same year(s) as OTL, perhaps still under a Democrat like...

What if, as current UK Prime Minister Theresa May recently did, Gordon Brown called a snap election in 2007 but this backfired on him? The conventional wisdom is that Brown should have called a snap election and would likely have won a workable majority. That is possible, but as the recent snap...

The quarter century or so following the formation of the Bank of England in 1694 proved to be a crucial period in the evolution of modern capitalism, including the Mississpi and South Sea Bubbles, the economic thinking of Nicholas Barbon and John Law, the formation of the U.K., and arguably the...

What if George W. Bush resigned during his second term? Obviously Cheney assumes the presidency, but could the POD be the economy tanking faster or the war going worse? What would be the impact on his legacy as a president?