Task 8 p.169

c)

• The global free market consumer economy was pioneered by the United States and the United Kingdom.
• Production, trade and investment has decreased.
• Poverty and unemployment has increased. 
• New Great Depression. 
• Many today are pointing the finger of blame back to the 1980s. 
• Leveraging – Using borrowed capital for (an investment), assuming the profits made to be greater.
• Derivatives and the Sub-prime mortgage market.
• For more than 30 years the rich have gotten richer, and the poor have gotten poorer.