As a result, mortgage experts say, banks have since the crisis charged borrowers extra interest to cover the risk of losses from taking loans back.
Not one executive at Lehman Brothers, which filed Wall Street's biggest bankruptcy ever at the height of the crisis, was charged with wrongdoing.
Her government has denied visas to a United Nations human-rights team charged with investigating the crisis, and international organizations have been prevented from delivering aid.
Yet the flux, the clashes, the contradictions seem to assemble into a fair facsimile of life at its most intense, in crisis mode, charged with sorrow and anger and perhaps even hope.
But she then undercut the deal by announcing that she was innocent and had changed her plea only because, in the current crisis, anyone charged with terrorism could not receive a fair trial.
A Florida banker who is known for tangling with his critics, including with a prominent bank analyst during the financial crisis, was charged by federal regulators on Wednesday with misleading investors about his company's real estate portfolio as the housing market turned south.
Four more city officials charged in toxic water crisis.
And yet, those charged with turning this crisis around -- from parents to policy-makers -- urge us to step back and examine the problem.
After repeated calls by the Italians for European Union assistance, Mare Nostrum came to an end, and the responsibility to address the migrant crisis was charged to a joint European mission called Operation Triton, overseen by the European border control agency Frontex.
Shafik also has a seat on the monetary policy committee, which sets interest rates, and the financial policy committee, which is charged with avoiding new crises in financial markets.
