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The Great Recession was a period of market decline in economies around the world that occurred from late 2007 to mid-2009. [1] The scale and timing of the recession varied from country to country (see map).
Until the start of the COVID-19 recession in 2020, no post-World War II era came anywhere near the depth of the Great Depression. In the Great Depression, GDP fell by 27% (the deepest after demobilization is the recession beginning in December 2007, during which GDP had fallen 5.1% by the second quarter of 2009) and the unemployment rate ...
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).
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 ...
December 1, 2008: The NBER announced the US was in a recession and had been since December 2007. The Dow tumbled 679.95 points or 7.8% on the news. [171] [95] December 6, 2008: The 2008 Greek riots began, sparked in part by economic conditions in the country. [citation needed] December 16, 2008: The federal funds rate was lowered to zero ...
A global recession is a recession that affects many countries around the world ... The world growth is projected to slow from 5% in 2007 to 3.75% in 2008 and to just ...
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First of all, calling the current economic contraction a recession is like calling Bubonic Plague a slight illness. We are clearly in the worst economic contraction since the Great Depression ...