Crash of 2008-09
- The economic crisis caused countries to close their markets temporarily.
- Family Matters
- Wall Street crashed
- Divorce rates increased
- Birth rates dropped
- Higher child malnutrition rate
- Students were able to go to college
On September 16, 2008, failures of massive financial institutions in the United States, due primarily to exposure of securities of packaged subprime loans and credit default swaps issued to insure these loans and their issuers, rapidly devolved into a global crisis resulting in a number of bank failures in Europe and sharp reductions in the value of stocks and commodities worldwide.