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    and economic upturns (Investopedia n.d.). A recession is an economic downturn and happens in every country and some recessions are worse than others and the output of GDP and employment are falling farther and faster. The great depression lasted from 1929-1933 and was a deep prolonged downturn in the business cycle before a recovery/expansion of the business cycle occurred and GDP and employment started to rise (Krugman & Wells. 2012). The next recession lasted from 1981-1982 and was comparatively

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    Abstract A recession is full-proof sign of declined activity within the economic environment. Many economists generally define the attributes of a recession are two consecutive quarters with declining GDP. Many factors contribute to an economy's fall into a recession, but the major cause argued is inflation. As individuals or even businesses try to cut costs and spending this causes GDP to decline, unemployment rate can rise due to less spending which can be one of the combined factors when

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    indirectly caused the great recession of 2007 and 2009. The financial crisis happened because banks were able to create too much money to fast and used it to increase house prices faster than wages. They increased the amount of money and debt in the economy. Eventually, the debts became unpayable and the banks saw themselves in danger of bankruptcy where people could not repay them and limited their spending. A downward spiral begins and the economy heads into recession. Using the aggregate demand

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    Economic recessions have been around for years and are very unpredictable for anyone can be affected by these economic downfalls. They had an impact on society for decades, and the effects of these economic recessions are still felt to this day. There have been more than forty seven known recessions that have occurred in this country over the years, and are a major part of American history. Although economic recessions are a natural hardship that the government and its citizens will encounter at

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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 result

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    The Great Recession

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    The Great Recession of 2008 was the biggest global financial crisis that the world witnessed after the Great Depression of the 1930s. Collapsing markets, failure of banks and drastic decrease in international trade were just some key characteristics of the great recession. It became clear after the collapse of the capitalist ideology enforced by United States that this was the end of America-centred age of globalization (Lecture 2). This paper will compare and contrast the key characteristics of

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    The recession that will be focused on is the most recent 2007-2009 recession. This recession cost the US labor market 8.4 million jobs. Job loss is one of the hardest things to recover from after a recession. Stocks go up, consumers continue with their purchases as some of them release times are getting better. However the economy is a rollercoaster, it goes from being at the top of the track with stocks high, and jobs growing each day to slowly descending to a crash, or in the reference of the rollercoaster

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    the end of 2007. The next economic crisis that would be comparable to the Great Depression occurred in the late 2000s, precisely between December 2007 and June 2009 (Roberts 1). It would be popularly referred to as the Great Recession. The Great Depression and the Great Recession were undoubtedly similar in multiple ways. This paper aims at comparing these two great economic crises by highlighting their similarities. This paper answers the question ‘How similar were the failures of the financial markets

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    The Great Recession was an economic recession that took place across the globe during the late 2000s. It was caused by the bursting of an $8,000,000,000,000 housing bubble. A housing bubble is caused by a substantial increase in real estate property values to an unsustainable level until a limit is reached where the market collapses. This led to less consumer spending, a collapse in business investing, and eventually an increase in job loss. Family wealth dropped, and the price of oil increased

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    INTRODUCTION Here a definition a recession as well a global recession is mentioned. Some causes and effects has been listed. Due to recession occurring, I have identified the effects of recession based on Tesco. The causes and effects of global recession. Global financial crisis, increasing for a while, began to show its results in the mid of 2007 into 2008. Worldwide stock markets have subsided, financial institutions have dropped and governments in even the richest nations have had to

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