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Though no one knew they were in it at the time, the Great Recession had a significant economic and political impact on the United States. While the recession technically lasted from December 2007 – June 2009 (the nominal GDP trough), many important economic variables did not regain pre-recession (November or Q4 2007) levels until 2011–2016.
American popular media labeled the Great Recession the "mancession" because of the many male dominated industries affected (e.g., construction) although many more men were hired than women during the recovery period. [58] By the end of 2009 the unemployment rate for men was 10.7%, while women's unemployment peaked at 8.4%. [59]
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 ...
Indeed, it's not an exaggeration to say it represented a tectonic shift in the global economic balance of power and set into motion a series of events which culminated in the Great Recession.
Recession Period. Start. End. Total Time Elapsed. The Great Depression–Late ’20s and Early ’30s. August 1929. March 1933. 3 years, 7 months. The Great Recession–aka The 2008 Financial Crisis
World map showing real GDP growth rates for 2009 (countries in brown were in recession) Share in GDP of U.S. financial sector since 1860 [15] The crisis sparked the Great Recession, which, at the time, was the most severe global recession since the Great Depression.
When people think of the Great Recession in 2008, they don’t tend to think of it as a particularly healthy time for humanity. But it turns out that may have been exactly what it was for certain ...
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] Some economists described the post-recession years as the weakest recovery since the Great Depression and World War II.