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1899–1900 recession June 1899 – December 1900 1 year 6 months 2 years −15.5% −8.8% This was a mild recession in the period of general growth beginning after 1897. Evidence for a recession in this period does not show up in some annual data series. [26] 1902–1904 recession September 1902 – August 1904 1 year 11 months 1 year 9 months
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).
In summer 2007, Countrywide Financial drew down an $11 billion line of credit and then secured an additional $12 billion bailout in September. This may be considered the start of the crisis. In mid-December 2007, Washington Mutual bank cut more than 3,000 jobs and closed its sub-prime mortgage business.
The Great Recession–aka The 2008 Financial Crisis. December 2007. June 2009. 1 year, 6 months. The Early ’80’s Recession. July 1981. November 1982. 1 year, 4 months. The Mid-’70’s ...
Recessions can start in a number of ways, from financial imbalances, such as the collapse of the housing market in 2006, to an economic shock, like the pandemic shutting down global business in 2020.
Recessions. Many factors directly and indirectly serve as the causes of the Great Recession that started in 2008 with the US subprime mortgage crisis.The major causes of the initial subprime mortgage crisis and the following recession include lax lending standards contributing to the real-estate bubbles that have since burst; U.S. government housing policies; and limited regulation of non ...
The Great Recession–aka The 2008 Financial Crisis. December 2007. June 2009. 1 year, 6 months. The Early ’80s Recession. July 1981. November 1982. 1 year, 4 months. The Mid-’70s Recession ...
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]