The Great Recession from 2007-09 saw GDP fall 4.3% ... which lost 50% of its value between August 2007 and March 2009 -- took until March 2013 to return to its previous high.

with real personal consumption expenditures showing no growth in March. If this continues, it makes a recession almost inevitable, despite some signs that inflation has been cooling down somewhat.

Cordray gave a talk online earlier this fall, during which he drew comparisons between the nature and effects of the current financial crisis and those of the Great Recession of 2008. He spoke with ...

The US economy kicked off 2025 by adding 143,000 jobs in January, fewer than expected; but the unemployment rate dipped to 4% ...

Yet, prolonged strategies like increased interest rates (which were first hiked in March 2022 ... two-month COVID-19 ...

There would have been 2.1 million more state and local government employees if their share of total employment had stayed the same since before the Great Recession. The underinvestment in public ...

And remember, recessions are usually officially declared after they've started (or even a year after they happened, as was the case with the two-month recession in March and April of 2020 ...

From the time the Great Recession started in late 2007 until it officially ended in 2009, the richest 1 percent of America saw its income drop 36.3 percent, according to a new report by economists ...

As such, investing during a recession can be a good idea, but only under the following circumstances: It can be a great idea to invest during a recession -- but only if you're in a strong enough ...

Individual speculation during the lead-up to this period had been so great that Fed Chairman ... What followed was an 8-month recession from March–November 2001, which also encompassed the ...

Preparing for the economic fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic by learning lessons from the Great Recession: A collection of pandemic-related research made possible by the Nielsen Datasets at Chicago ...