Evidence

Format Web Page

"Outstanding credit default swap notional reached about $58 trillion at the end of 2007 after rising 36 percent in six months."

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Source title OTC derivatives market activity in the second half of 2007

Source authors Bank for International Settlements

Source year 2008

Confidence high

Importance high

Format Web Page

"The pre-crisis financial system combined high leverage, unstable short-term funding, weak risk management, and opaque financial instruments."

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Source title Some Reflections on the Crisis and the Policy Response

Source authors Ben S. Bernanke

Source year 2012

Confidence high

Importance high

Format Web Page

"Ben Bernanke became Federal Reserve chair on February 1, 2006, succeeding Alan Greenspan."

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Source title Ben S. Bernanke sworn in as fourteenth Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System

Source authors Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System

Source year 2006

Confidence high

Importance mid

Format Online paper / PDF

"Alan Greenspan supported blocking new CFTC regulation of OTC derivatives in 1998."

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Source title The regulation of OTC derivatives

Source authors Alan Greenspan

Source year 1998

Confidence high

Importance high

Format Online paper / PDF

"Late commercial payments can damage small-company cash flow and increase borrowing needs, particularly when credit is constrained."

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Source title Economic Impact of Late Payments

Source authors William Connell

Source year 2014

Confidence high

Importance high

Format Online paper / PDF

"Euro-area banks sharply tightened business credit as the financial crisis developed."

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Source title The Euro Area Bank Lending Survey - April 2008

Source authors European Central Bank

Source year 2008

Confidence high

Importance high

Format Web Page

"Technologies with adverse effects can create countermarkets that increase pressure to develop technologies that mitigate those effects."

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Location PART 2 - FOUR HIDDEN CHIMNEYS CHAPTER 8: THE SHIELD OF SCREWTAPE Vibe Coding First Sparks

Source title Technocalvinism

Source authors Luke Drago

Source year 2025

Confidence high

Importance mid

Format Tweet

"Software abstraction can let developers work with substantial amounts of underlying code without reading or directly inspecting it."

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Source title Post on X by @kennedybaird_

Source authors @kennedybaird_

Source year 2026

Confidence high

Importance mid

Format Web Page

"Firebug pioneered browser-integrated inspection, editing and debugging of web code in the mid-2000s."

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Location PART 2 - FOUR HIDDEN CHIMNEYS CHAPTER 8: THE SHIELD OF SCREWTAPE Vibe Coding First Sparks

Source title Saying Goodbye to Firebug

Source authors Jan Honza Odvarko

Source year 2017

Confidence high

Importance mid

Format Web Page

"WordPress plugins extend the platform’s existing functionality with reusable functions and features."

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Location PART 2 - FOUR HIDDEN CHIMNEYS CHAPTER 8: THE SHIELD OF SCREWTAPE Vibe Coding First Sparks

Source title Introduction to Plugins

Source authors WordPress.org

Source year 2023

Confidence high

Importance mid