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Frances Coppola: Financial Hurricanes

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It is widely believed that risky behaviour by banks caused the 2007-8 financial crisis. In fact it is avoiding risk, not taking it, that creates the financial storms that crash our economy. Frances Coppola depicts that not only the Great Financial Crisis itself, but also the Eurozone crisis, were financial storms caused by cross-border financial flows which were driven by the search for high yield at zero risk. She discussed the often ignored role of insurance in creating these storms. Frances Coppola is the author of the Coppola Comment finance and economics blog, a contributor to Forbes, and an ad-hoc writer for the Independent, the Financial Times, Open Democracy, and other news media, as well as several financial industry publications. She is a frequent commentator on matters

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It is widely believed that risky behaviour by banks caused the 2007-8 financial crisis. In fact it is avoiding risk, not taking it, that creates the financial storms that crash our economy. Frances Coppola depicts that not only the Great Financial Crisis itself, but also the Eurozone crisis, were financial storms caused by cross-border financial flows which were driven by the search for high yield at zero risk. She discussed the often ignored role of insurance in creating these storms.



Frances Coppola is the author of the Coppola Comment finance and economics blog, a contributor to Forbes, and an ad-hoc writer for the Independent, the Financial Times, Open Democracy, and other news media, as well as several financial industry publications. She is a frequent commentator on matters economic and financial for the BBC.



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Frances Coppola
I’m Frances Coppola, writer, singer and twitterer extraordinaire. I am politically non-aligned and economically neutral (I do not regard myself as “belonging” to any particular school of economics). I do not give investment advice and I have no investments.Coppola Comment is my main blog. I am also the author of the Singing is Easy blog, where I write about singing, teaching and muscial expression, and Still Life With Paradox, which contains personal reflections on life, faith and morality.

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