| The global financial markets have been literally in a churn since early 2008,which became more pronounced after the collapse of Lehman Brothers.
Apart from the housing bubble and bankruptcies caused by excessive speculative investments by investment banks in high-risk, complex structured products, the role of excessive speculation in select commodities by high return seeking fund houses, viz., Hedge Funds, Private Equity Funds, long-only funds etc in causing this crisis, first in US and then in the whole global economy, has been well chronicled over the last 3 years...............................................Full Article: Source
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