The American subprime mortgage crisis was a multinational financial crisis that occurred between 2007 and 2010, contributing to the 2008 financial crisis. It led to a severe economic recession, with m
Federal funds rate history and recessions
A mortgage brokerage in the US advertising subprime mortgages in July 2008
Relationship between fiscal tightening (austerity) in Eurozone countries with their GDP growth rate, 2008–2012
People queuing outside a Northern Rock bank branch in Birmingham, United Kingdom, on September 15, 2007, to withdraw their savings because of the subprime crisis
Alan Greenspan was an American economist who served as the 13th chair of the Federal Reserve from 1987 to 2006. He worked as a private adviser and provided consulting for firms through his company, Gr
Official portrait of Greenspan
Greenspan and wife Andrea Mitchell in 2000
President George W. Bush presents the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Alan Greenspan, on November 9, 2005, in the East Room of the White House.