{"id":365,"date":"2011-06-28T15:29:01","date_gmt":"2011-06-28T23:29:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leiss.ca\/?p=365"},"modified":"2011-06-28T15:29:01","modified_gmt":"2011-06-28T23:29:01","slug":"catastrophic-failures-in-risk-management-2-the-never-ending-global-financial-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leiss.ca\/?p=365","title":{"rendered":"Catastrophic Failures in Risk Management, 2: The Never-Ending Global Financial Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With increasing frequency comments on the ongoing sovereign debt crisis in Greece and the euro zone include a reference to the need to avoid a repeat of the collapse of the investment bank Lehman Brothers in September 2008. The basis for this otherwise puzzling comparison is the concept of \u00e2\u20ac\u0153contagion,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d that is, cascading failures in the financial sector \u00e2\u20ac\u201c the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153falling dominos scenario\u00e2\u20ac\u009d \u00e2\u20ac\u201c which once started with a single \u00e2\u20ac\u0153event\u00e2\u20ac\u009d cannot be halted, by any means currently at our disposal, until other (perhaps many other) large losses occur.<\/p>\n<p>Full post here: <a href='https:\/\/leiss.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Catastrophic-Failures-in-Risk-Management-2.pdf'>Catastrophic Failures in Risk Management 2<\/a> [PDF]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With increasing frequency comments on the ongoing sovereign debt crisis in Greece and the euro zone include a reference to the need to avoid a repeat of the collapse of the investment bank Lehman Brothers in September 2008. The basis &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/leiss.ca\/?p=365\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1GwcM-5T","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leiss.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leiss.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leiss.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leiss.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leiss.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=365"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/leiss.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":367,"href":"https:\/\/leiss.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365\/revisions\/367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leiss.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leiss.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leiss.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}