The real issue here is the company's ongoing climb out of a mess relating to some accounting disasters that had to be cleaned up (along with some management changes).
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The Wall Street mess is, of course, closely related to the trade mess, because America's trade deficit entailed a backwash of cheap foreign capital into our markets for debt and other assets.
"The present economic mess is very much related to the Iraq war," says Joseph Stiglitz, the Nobel Prize-winning economist.
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Unfortunately, the subprime mess has tainted anything related to the word "mortgage," leaving investors uncertain of which loans to trust.
As they entered this year's general election, Theresa May and her allies had almost nothing to say about the economy or society, but campaigned instead on a mess of stuff relating to her supposed character, the idea that she was about to stick it to the French and Germans, and the kind of loathing of left-liberal politics embodied by all those front pages of the Daily Mail.
Financial firms have been battling chaotic — and at times redundant — litigation related to the mortgage mess.
