Great Recession

English

Proper noun

the Great Recession

1. The worldwide general economic decline towards the end of the first decade of the 21st century.
   • 2011 July 25, Don Peck, “Can the Middle Class Be Saved?”, in The Atlantic‎^[1]:

     Income inequality usually shrinks during a recession, but in the Great Recession, it didn’t. From 2007 to 2009, the most-recent years for which data are available, it widened a little. […] It’s hard to miss just how unevenly the Great Recession has affected different classes of people in different places.

   • 2020 August 7, Kurt Andersen, “College-Educated Professionals Are Capitalism’s Useful Idiots”, in The Atlantic‎^[2]:

     This was before the financial crash, before the Great Recession. The amazing real-estate bubble had not yet popped, and the economy was still apparently rocking.

   • 2022 April 28, Farhad Manjoo, “Is Elon Musk Really That Bad?”, in The New York Times‎^[3], →ISSN:

     But starting a rocket company is what Musk did — and, after also pouring money into another money-burning venture, Tesla, Musk came very close to losing it all after the Great Recession.

Translations

worldwide economic decline

• Catalan: please add this translation if you can
• French: Grande Récession de 2008 f
• German: Weltfinanzkrise f
• Hindi: भयंकर मंदी f (bhayaṅkar mandī)
• Italian: grande recessione f
• Spanish: crisis económica de 2008-2015 f
• Swedish: stora recessionen c
• Vietnamese: Đại suy thoái

See also

• Great Depression

References

• “The Great Recession”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)‎^[4], The State of Working America, 2015 June 19 (last accessed), archived from the original on 26 April 2015
• “The Great Recession”, in Investopedia‎^[5], 2015 June 19 (last accessed), archived from the original on 13 April 2015