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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.
Job losses caused by the Great Recession refers to jobs that have been lost worldwide within people since the start of the Great Recession. In the US, job losses have been going on since December 2007, and it accelerated drastically starting in September 2008 following the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers. [1] By February 2010, the American ...
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% —
Between December 2007 (when the recession officially began) and last month, more than 8 million Americans have lost their jobs, according to the government. Of those job losses, 700,000 stem from ...
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% ...
The Fed spent the past 20 months doing everything in its power to slow America’s economy down to combat runaway inflation with full awareness that it could inadvertently cause millions of ...
During the 2008 recession, the price of gas fell by as much as 60% to $1.62 per gallon. Most experts believe that a recession would cause gas prices to fall. However, because not all gas is ...
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]