If you think George W. Bush’s economic policies caused the Great Recession and Barack Obama’s ended it, then your Election Day decision is likely an easy one. But placing politics aside, I don ...

The quarter before Obama took office, real GDP fell at an annual rate of 8 percent. In the first quarter of his first term, the job market shed over 2 million jobs.

Where Obama’s wrong However, this doesn’t tell the whole story. As it turns out, the statistics that fell faster after mid 2009 also recovered more quickly than they did during the Great ...

Wonder Land: Emmanuel Macron welcomed Joe Biden to “the club.” He was talking about the European welfare state. Image: Kevin Lamarque/Reuters Mr. Obama will be remembered for the slowest ...

I was in college when the Great Recession officially ended in June 2009. But I couldn’t find a job that summer or the next one because the effects of the recession, which reverberated throughout ...

The Great Recession was a sharp decline in economic activity from 2007 to 2009. It was the longest economic downturn since the Great Depression.

The Great Recession didn’t just affect the United States; all countries with rapid credit growth and large account deficits were impacted. Global trade nearly collapsed, declining by 15% between ...

Great Recession. Princeton University history and public affairs professor Julian Zelizer provided a "macro" overview of Barack Obama's first 100 days in office and discussed the effects of the ...

This recession is associated with the beginning of the Obama era. Job seekers attend a career fair at the Toyota Center in Houston, Texas, on August 5, 2009. Scott Dalton/Bloomberg/Getty Images ...

The recession indicator meme is going strong in 2025 as X users tag trends that are giving early Obama-era vibes with the phrase. In addition to various behaviors designed to save people money ...