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in USA

HSBC

Hubbert, M. King

Hungary

Huskisson, William

Hussein, Saddam

Iceland

Icesave

Ickes, Harold L.

IKB

immigration

imperialism

index funds

India

cars in

and climate change

economic growth

and food

and oil

politics

population and GDP

power generation

and trade

Indonesia

Indy Mac Bankcorp

inflation

and asset prices

insurance, payment protection

intellectual property

interest rates

in USA

International Economic Association

International Monetary Fund (IMF)

Special Drawing Rights

International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO)

investment banks

Iran

Iran–Iraq War

Iraq

Iraq War

Ireland

iron ore

Islamic radicalism

Isle of Man

Israel

Italy

gas imports

and ‘state capitalism’

Jacques, Martin

Japan

banking crisis

and deflation

fiscal policy

and oil

pre-war

power generation

and trade

Johnson, Samuel

JPMorgan Chase

Kaplinsky, Raphael

Kaufman, Henry

Kenya

Keynesian economics

Kindleberger, Charles

King, Martin Luther

King, Mervyn

Kipper- und Wipperzeit
speculation

Korea

Korean War

Krugman, Paul

Kuwait

Kyoto Agreement

Latin America

Lawrence, Robert

Lawson, Nigel

Le Piège
(Goldsmith)

League of Nations

Lehman Brothers

Libya

Lieberman, Senator Joe

Limits to Growth theory

Lloyds TSB

LNG ‘trains’

London

Long Term Capital Management

Maastricht Treaty

Maddison, Angus

maize

Malaysia

Malthus, Thomas

Mandelson, Peter

manufacturing

Martins Bank

Marx, Karl

mathematics

MBIA

media, independent

Mellon, Andrew

Merrill Lynch

Mexico

Miles, David

Mill, John Stuart

Minsky, Hyman

Monbiot, George

monetarism

monolines

Moody’s

moral hazard

Morecambe Bay cockle-pickers

mortgage lending

arrears

deposits

payment protection insurance

self-certification’

in USA

see also
sub-prime lending

Mosley, Oswald

multinational companies

Murti, Arjun

Mussolini, Benito

Napoleonic Wars

nationalism

Netherlands

Nevada

New Century

New Deal

New Labour

New York

Newcastle United FC

Newcastle upon Tyne

News of the World

Newton, Isaac

nickel

Nigeria

Nissan

Nixon, Richard

Nixon administration

‘non-domiciled’ residents

North Pole

North Sea

Northern Rock

Norway

nuclear power

Obama, Barack

Obama administration

O’Brien, Richard

Odell, Peter

OECD (Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development)

Office for National Statistics

oil

and exchange rate

hoarding

oil ‘optimism’

‘peak oil’ theory

price shocks

and politics

speculation

‘super cycles’

Olympic Games

Oman

OPEC

Opium Wars

Overend Gurney

Pakistan

‘paradox of thrift’

Paulson plan

pensions

Persaud, Avinash

Persian Gulf

petrol prices

Pike, Richard

planning system

Poland

‘politics of identity’

population growth

privatization

protectionism

public sector

public spending

Putin, Vladimir

Qatar

‘quantitative easing’

Rajasthan

ratings agencies

Reagan, Ronald

recession

‘Ricardian equivalence’

Ricardo, David

rice

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Rowthorn, Bob

Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS)/NatWest

Russia (and former Soviet Union)

debt default

economic and political collapse

and food

gas production

and nationalism

and oil

Russian revolution

Santander

Sarkozy, Nicolas

Saudi Arabia

savings

Scandinavia

Scargill, Arthur

schools

Schumacher, E. F.

science and engineering

Scottish nationalism

Seattle

Second World War

securitization

Sen, Amartya

share values

Shell

short-selling

Simmonds, Matthew

Singapore

Singh, Manmohan

Sinopec

Small Is Beautiful
(Schumacher)

Smoot–Hawley tariffs

social cohesion

socialism

South Africa

South Sea Bubble

sovereign default

sovereign wealth funds

Spain

special investment vehicles (SIVs)

Spencer, Herbert

stamp duty

Standard and Poor

sterling, weakening of

Stolper–Samuelson model

sub-prime lending

Sudan

Summers, Larry

Sunderland

Sweden

Switzerland

Taiwan

tax havens

tax reliefs

television

Tett, Gillian

Thailand

Thames, River

Thatcher, Margaret

trade policy

Tremonti, Giulio

Trotsky, Leon

tulip bubble

Turkey

UBS

UK Financial Investments Ltd (UKFI)

UK population

Ukraine

unemployment

United States of America

and biofuels

car industry

and Chinese ‘vendor finance’

creditworthiness

‘culture wars’

family incomes

food production

foreign exchange deficit

government borrowing in

housing market

interest rates

labour unions

and New Deal

and oil

population and GDP

power generation

public attitudes in

and trade

US Congress

US dollar

US Federal Reserve

US Geological Survey

US Securities and Exchange Commission

US Senate

US Treasury

VAT

‘vendor finance’

Venezuela

Vietnam

Vietnam War

von Hayek, Friedrich

von Mises, Ludwig

Wachovia

Wadhwani, Sushil

Wall Street Crash

Washington consensus

Washington Mutual

water supplies

wealth inequalities

welfare payments

welfare states

wheat

Wolf, Martin

World Bank

World Food Programme

World Trade Organization (WTO)

Doha Round negotiations

xenophobia

Yom Kippur War

Yugoslavia, former

Zimbabwe