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v. t. e. The 2008 United States presidential election in Florida took place on November 4, as part of the 2008 United States presidential election. Florida voters chose 27 representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.
The 2000s United States housing bubble or house price boom or 2000s housing cycle[2] was a sharp run up and subsequent collapse of house asset prices affecting over half of the U.S. states. In many regions a real estate bubble, it was the impetus for the subprime mortgage crisis. Housing prices peaked in early 2006, started to decline in 2006 ...
v. t. e. The 2008 United States House of Representatives Elections in Florida were held on November 4, 2008 to determine who would represent the state of Florida in the United States House of Representatives. Representatives are elected for two-year terms; those elected served in the 111th Congress from January 4, 2009 until January 3, 2011.
This Category 4 hurricane made landfall in Palm Beach, Florida, but the worst damage was at Lake Okeechobee, where winds of 162 mph caused storm surges up to 9 feet. ... Year: 2008. Death Toll: 195.
The 2008 Florida Democratic presidential primary took place on January 29, 2008. Originally, the state had 185 delegates up for grabs that were to be awarded in the following way: 121 delegates were to be awarded based on the winner in each of Florida's 25 congressional districts while an additional 64 delegates were to be awarded to the statewide winner.
The 1815 panic was followed by several years of mild depression, and then a major financial crisis – the Panic of 1819, which featured widespread foreclosures, bank failures, unemployment, a collapse in real estate prices, and a slump in agriculture and manufacturing. [9] 1822–1823 recession. 1822–1823. ~1 year.
Japan was in recovery in the middle of the decade 2000s but slipped back into recession and deflation in 2008. [148] The recession in Japan intensified in the fourth quarter of 2008 with a GDP growth of −12.7%, [149] and deepened further in the first quarter of 2009 with a GDP growth of −15.2%. [150]
Observers and analysts have attributed the reasons for the 2001–2006 housing bubble and its 2007–10 collapse in the United States to "everyone from home buyers to Wall Street, mortgage brokers to Alan Greenspan ". [3] Other factors that are named include " Mortgage underwriters, investment banks, rating agencies, and investors", [4] "low ...