| Historians observe that financialization is a typical indicator of economic decline. |
| Too much financialization of the economy has occured at the expense of the real productive sector. |
| The big bang of the 1980s unleashed the financialization of British capitalism that demanded the City be free of regulation. |
| It was only in the nineteenth century that industrialization and financialization produced the liquidity we now take for granted. |
| In many ways, the debt-fueled housing bubble was the financialization of America carried to its logical conclusion. |
| The financialization of the American and British economies began in the 1980s, greatly increasing the size and impact of the financial sector. |
