Below, we break down how the recession came about, the Democratic Party’s failure to meet the moment, and how we’re still living with the consequences. In December 2008, the nonprofit National ...

Recessions feel interminable because of their impact on the job market, stock market and household budgets. The actual downturn might end in 10 months, but it “may take us longer to bounce back,” said ...

"So what happened to home prices in the recession ... This year, mortgage rates reached their highest level since 2008—the time of the U.S. Great Recession and the housing crash—pricing ...

The classic case is the Great Recession of 2007 to 2009, which was triggered by a collapse in the mortgage market. When this happened, builders stopped building homes, which meant they stopped ...

In my book, Y2K: How the 2000s Became Everything, I argue that we can’t understand contemporary politics without understanding the Great Recession and its aftermath. And part of that is ...