The Great Recession from 2007-09 saw GDP fall 4.3% ... from 5.25% in September 2007 to a record low of 0% by the end of 2008. The Federal Reserve also provided debt capital to support the ...

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 ...

In a recession, prioritizing liquidity and safety ensures access to funds while maintaining steady, low-risk returns.

When Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy in the fall of 2008, jolting an already ailing ... if heeded — could've prevented the great financial crisis from exploding into raging, ruinous enormity.

According to Frugal Living Expert Austin Williams Just before the start of the Great Recession, the Federal Reserve hiked its interest rates up to levels that mirror today’s. However, rates took a ...

How long did it take for the economy to recover in 2008? The length of an economic recession is typically shorter than its duration. Geibel asserts that recessions typically last 15 months while ...

John P. Hussman, who correctly called the 2000 and 2008 declines, said a recession might hit the U.S. economy as soon as in mid-2025.

Home equity loans have been offered since the Great Depression, but they didn’t really become popular with borrowers until the Tax Reform Act of 1986.

the Great Depression of 1929 and the Great Recession of 2008. In each case, insufficient regulation of the banking system was held to have contributed to the crisis. Economists therefore faced the ...

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 ...