financial panic
Economic fear spiral
A financial panic is a sudden, widespread loss of confidence in the financial system, triggering runs on banks, rapid selling of assets, and credit freezes.
Panics often follow the collapse of a major institution or revelation of hidden risks, spreading fear faster than facts: The panic of 1907 nearly brought down the banking system.
Distinguished from ordinary downturns by their speed and contagion.
- stock market crashRapid decline in share prices
- Wall Street crashCatastrophic stock exchange collapse
- market collapseSudden severe price drop
- market speculationRisky investment based on predictions
- Great Depression1930s global economic crisis
bread lines · bank runs · run on the bank · bailouts · too big to fail · Lehman Brothers · credit crunch · systemic risk · liquidity crisis · recession · deflation · asset bubbles · bankruptcies · currency devaluation · overleveraging · capital flight · contagion · economic downturn
- financial crisesbank run, economic collapse, bank failure, bank failures, bank runs
- fiscal crisesdebt crisis, budget crisis, fiscal crisis, fiscal emergency, budget deficit
- market risksmarket risk, market crash, market volatility, market correction, volatility
- European FinanceBank of England, London Stock Exchange, European Central Bank, euro, Frankfurt Stock Exchange
- Market Crashescrash, market collapse, collapse, Black Monday, Black Tuesday
- Bank WarAndrew Jackson, Henry Clay, national bank, hard money, state banks
financial panicfinancial stability
Sound economic standing
investor confidence · financial security · economic stability · steady state · bull market
financial paniceconomic boom
Sustained period of growth
bull market · economic expansion · market rally · bull run · prosperity
financial panicirrational exuberance
Unjustified collective market optimism
buying frenzy · greed · animal spirits · risk appetite · exuberance
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