Financial innovation means that new financial products are being created that is moving money around the world at a faster pace. Central bankers are becoming more sophisticated, as well, but possibly not fast enough to keep up with the pace.
The results in 2006 and 2007 were asset bubbles, stock market volatility, which created an economic slowdown and fa global economic crisis in 2008.
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