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Muscatelli, Anton; Mackay, Francesca – CURRENTS, 2011
A housing and municipal construction bubble popped and generated a lending crisis in which interbank lending rates became impossibly high. The banking crisis, which spread across Europe and the United States, eventually impacted other industries, leading to a stock market crash and an economic contraction lasting several years. This was not in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Economic Climate, Financial Problems, Real Estate
Scully, Maura King – CURRENTS, 2009
It's official: Online social networking is mainstream. Once the domain of teenagers and techno-geeks, sites like Facebook, LinkedIn, MySpace, and Twitter are rapidly gaining popularity with the multi-aged masses. Last year, in fact, Facebook reported its fastest growing demographic was those 25 years and older. There's no question that this new…
Descriptors: Public Relations, Alumni, Foreign Countries, Alumni Associations