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The Great Recession was a period of market decline in economies around the world that occurred from late 2007 to mid-2009. [1] ... By the end of 2011, real house ...
Several major U.S. economic variables had recovered from the 2007-2009 Subprime mortgage crisis and Great Recession by the 2013-2014 time period. The recession officially ended in the second quarter of 2009, [3] but the nation's economy continued to be described as in an "economic malaise" during the second quarter of 2011. [80]
A recession is a period of two quarters of negative GDP growth. The countries listed are those that officially announced that they were in recession. It is worth noting that some developed countries such as South Korea and Australia did not enter recession (indeed Australia contracted for the last quarter of 2008 only to grow 1% for the first half of 2009).
Recession Period. Start. End. Time Elapsed Total. The Great Depression–Late ’20’s and Early ’30’s. August 1929. March 1933. 3 years, 7 months. The Great Recession–aka The 2008 ...
This recession was one of the main causes of the American Civil War, which would begin in 1861 and end in 1865. This is the earliest recession to which the NBER assigns specific months (rather than years) for the peak and trough. [6] [8] [21] 1860–1861 recession October 1860 – June 1861 8 months 1 year 10 months −14.5% —
Combined, the initiatives, coupled with actions taken in other countries, ended the worst of the Great Recession by mid-2009. Assessments of the crisis's impact in the U.S. vary, but suggest that some 8.7 million jobs were lost, causing unemployment to rise from 5 percent in 2007 to a high of 10 percent in October 2009.
The recession did not show up until 2009, but the recession already slowed down in 2008. The country had a positive growth of 1.5% in 2008 compared to a 3.3% in 2007, by 2009 the economy had shrunk by 6.5%, a percentage bigger than that of the 1994-1995 crisis [18] and the largest in almost eight decades and registering an inflation of 3.57% [19]
I've become increasingly dismayed at the mainstream media's failure to explain the root cause of the Great Recession. While the crisis spawned entertaining films like Inside Job and captivating ...