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    10% and the Dow Jones lost half of its value. Times were tough for everyone. Then, in 2009, the USA started to pull out of the crisis. The federal reserve lowered interest rates and aided banks with $7.7 trillion dollars of emergency loans. The Great Recession has ended, but to this day, some people haven’t fully recovered. In 2007 I was four. I was in my last year of preschool with Mrs. Valentina in the starfish room. I was completely oblivious to the events transpiring in the world around me and

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    in 2007. Known as the “Great Recession,” the American economic recession entered into a recession in December 2007. The recession came after a large expansion in housing construction, home prices, and housing credit which began in the 1990s (Weinberg, 2013). The recession was large enough to impact all aspects of the American economy. The United States’ GDP dropped by 4.3% and the unemployment rate rose to 10% (Weinberg, 2013). Like most industries during the “Great Recession,” the sport business industry

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    The Great Recession of 2008­2009 was one of the longest capitalist economic collapses since the Great Depression of 1929­1932. One of the main causes of Great Recession was the consumer spending’s cutbacks and that the low demand on new housing which made the home prices to fall. Before 2008, household needs in America were very high which increased their spending and the demand in products. But when the mortgage rates reset, people found themselves in a spot where they could no longer afford to

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    article "The Great Recession: An Affair to Remember", Peter Coy asserts two things. The first is that the great recession has gone on longer than necessary as the result of faulty fiscal and monetary policy; and the second is that the Great Recession will eventually end with a boom in the US economy. The article covers a number of key concepts in macroeconomics. The first is the idea of the recession, something that Coy discusses at length in the article. We notes that the recession cam e as the

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    Conditions of the Great Recession Financial crisis conditions, the most important things are the subprime mortgage and the exotic ABS such as CDOs. The low down-payment requirement and the lack of sufficient credit check enabled people who were not financially eligible to take large loans to get the money, and allowed them to continue to refinance these mortgages as the home price continued to rise. This introduced large amounts of risks into the market and could send the market into a vicious

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    ways to supplant the benefits lost in wages by creating greater work flexibility through varied schedules, telecommuting is another way to improve culture and reduce workplace stress. (Short, 2013) The Great Recession that began in 2007 introduced people to a feeling not since felt since the Great Depression of the 30’s and 40’s. It reintroduced a new generation to the realization that we cannot take anything for granted. It sprung up fears in a fearless population, and out of it born a stress

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    THE GREAT RECESSION According to Adam Smith, a world renowned economist, if individuals are left free to pursue their own economic interests, they end up benefiting the whole economy; however, the great recession of 2007 proved otherwise. The great recession which lasted from December 2007 to July 2009, was the most severe recession since the great depression. It only lasted 18 months but it almost collapsed the global economy. Moreover, the recovery was slow and jobless. The recession was not an

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    the Great Recession. Before learning more about the Great Recession and other depression that had taken place in our country, all I knew was a little bit about the Great depression and only a little bit about the Great Recession. All of the depression, recession, and other problems that was happening, I was in school only hearing a little bit of what was going on. Now knowing that our country been though a lot of problems really made me pay more attention to see what is going on. The Great Recession

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    The financial crisis that put our economy on a downhill rocky road is known as the Great Recession of 2008. The U.S. Governments resolution to one the biggest panics was revolved around multiple bailout and fiscal measures. The fight to pull our weakening economy out of a dark hole left the American people with hope of advancing what gets thrown their way. The many bailout programs implemented by the U.S. Government can only hold the economy together for so long until were up to our knees in debt

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    Great Recession Deficit spending Deficit spending refers to the extent at which the government expenditure exceeds revenue over the financial period. This is the opposite of budget surplus. We may apply the term to an individual, private company or government budget (Brux, 2011). Advantages An economic downturn automatically paves way to a decline in taxation and an increase in government spending. This causes deficit. Nevertheless, if the government tries to reverse the situation by increasing

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