Great Recession en · PROPN
Meanings
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The worldwide general economic decline towards the end of the first decade of the 21st century.
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.
2022 April 28, Farhad Manjoo, “Is Elon Musk Really That Bad?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN: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.
2011 July 25, Don Peck, “Can the Middle Class Be Saved?”, in 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.
2020 August 7, Kurt Andersen, “College-Educated Professionals Are Capitalism’s Useful Idiots”, in The Atlantic:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
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| the Great Recession | canonical | lexicographic |
Relateds
recession pop · Great Depression
Translations (9)
de Weltfinanzkrise (worldwide economic decline) · hi भयंकर मंदी (worldwide economic decline) · vi Đại suy thoái (worldwide economic decline) · fr Grande Récession de 2008 (worldwide economic decline) · pl wielka recesja (worldwide economic decline) · sv stora recessionen (worldwide economic decline) · es crisis económica de 2008-2015 (worldwide economic decline) · ca recessió mundial de 2008 (worldwide economic decline) · it grande recessione (worldwide economic decline)