The alanine aminotransferase (ALT) test is typically used to detect liver injury. It is often ordered in conjunction with aspartate aminotransferase (AST) as part of a liver panel or comprehensive metabolic panel (CMP) to screen for and/or help diagnose liver disease.
25 People to Blame for the Financial Crisis. Bill Clinton. President Clinton's tenure was characterized by economic prosperity and financial deregulation, which in many ways set the stage for the excesses of recent years. Among his biggest strokes of free-wheeling capitalism was the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, which repealed the Glass-Steagall Act, a cornerstone of Depression-era regulation.
By re-election in 1980, President Carters foreign policy was seen as passage and weak. The USSR was expanding and becoming more hostile and aggressive. We had hostages held in Iran, The Fed raised the prime rate to 21%, causing home mortgage interest to 16% or above, and few could afford a house.he Fed (Federal Reserve) had failed to act, when economic conditions deteriorated, and inflation, unemployment were at double digit levels OPEC had used, and was using, Middle East oil as a political weapon, including a boycott of the U.S, refusing to sell us oil.