Great Recession

English Proper noun Great Recession 1 The worldwide general economic decline towards the end of the first decade of the 21st century. en https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2011/09/can-the-middle-class-be-saved/308600/ Can the Middle Class Be Saved? 2011-07-25 Don Peck The Atlantic 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. https://web.archive.org/web/20260910153952/https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2011/09/can-the-middle-class-be-saved/308600/ 10 September 2026 en https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/08/i-was-useful-idiot-capitalism/615031/ College-Educated Professionals Are Capitalism’s Useful Idiots 2020-08-07 Kurt Andersen The Atlantic 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. https://web.archive.org/web/20260601120516/https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/08/i-was-useful-idiot-capitalism/615031/ 1 June 2026 en Farhad Manjoo Is Elon Musk Really That Bad? The New York Times 2022-04-28 https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/28/opinion/elon-musk-twitter-business.html 0362-4331 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. https://web.archive.org/web/20250821164134/https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/28/opinion/elon-musk-twitter-business.html 21 August 2025 Translations worldwide economic decline Catalan: ca recessió mundial de 2008 f French: fr Grande Récession de 2008 f German: de Weltfinanzkrise f Hindi: hi भयंकर मंदी f Italian: it grande recessione f Polish: pl wielka recesja f Spanish: es crisis económica de 2008-2015 f Swedish: sv stora recessionen c Vietnamese: vi Đại suy thoái See also en Great Depression recession pop References http://stateofworkingamerica.org/great-recession/ The State of Working America The Great Recession June 19, 2015 https://web.archive.org/web/20150426230218/http://stateofworkingamerica.org/great-recession/ 26 April 2015 http://www.investopedia.com/terms/g/great-recession.asp Investopedia The Great Recession June 19, 2015 https://web.archive.org/web/20150413113141/http://www.investopedia.com/terms/g/great-recession.asp 13 April 2015 en Economics