WOW.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Financial crisis - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Financial_crisis

    A financial crisis is any of a broad variety of situations in which some financial assets suddenly lose a large part of their nominal value. In the 19th and early 20th centuries, many financial crises were associated with banking panics, and many recessions coincided with these panics. Other situations that are often called financial crises ...

  3. 2007–2008 financial crisis - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007–2008_financial_crisis

    The 2007–2008 financial crisis, or the global financial crisis (GFC), was the most severe worldwide economic crisis since the Great Depression. Predatory lending in the form of subprime mortgages targeting low-income homebuyers, [ 1 ] excessive risk-taking by global financial institutions, [ 2 ] a continuous buildup of toxic assets within ...

  4. List of economic crises - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_economic_crises

    Financial crisis and economic collapse. Currency crisis, hyperinflation and devaluation. Banking crisis, credit crunch, bank run. Savings and loan crisis. Balance of payments crisis. Depression (economics), recession, stagflation, jobless recovery. Economic bubble, stock market bubble and real estate bubble.

  5. Subprime mortgage crisis - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subprime_mortgage_crisis

    The American subprime mortgage crisis was a multinational financial crisis that occurred between 2007 and 2010 that contributed to the 2007–2008 global financial crisis. The crisis led to a severe economic recession , with millions losing their jobs and many businesses going bankrupt .

  6. Causes of the Great Recession - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Causes_of_the_Great_Recession

    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 ...

  7. List of banking crises - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_banking_crises

    2008–2011 Icelandic financial crisis. Great Recession in Russia. 2008–2009 Ukrainian financial crisis. 2008–2014 Spanish financial crisis. Post-2008 Irish banking crisis. Venezuelan banking crisis of 2009–2010. 2012–2013 Cypriot financial crisis. Ghana banking crisis of 2017–2018. 2023 United States banking crisis.

  8. Great Recession - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Recession

    The Great Recession was a period of market decline in economies around the world that occurred in 2007 to 2009. The scale and timing of the recession varied from country to country (see map). [1][2] At the time, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) concluded that it was the most severe economic and financial meltdown since the Great Depression.

  9. Savings and loan crisis - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savings_and_loan_crisis

    The savings and loan crisis of the 1980s and 1990s (commonly dubbed the S&L crisis) was the failure of 32% (1,043 of the 3,234) of savings and loan associations (S&Ls) in the United States from 1986 to 1995. An S&L or "thrift" is a financial institution that accepts savings deposits and makes mortgage, car and other personal loans to individual ...