Great Recession/Timelines: Difference between revisions

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The average price of a US house increased by about 70% between 2000 and 2006 [1] and then fell to 6.5% below the 2006 peak by July 2007[2].
The subprime mortgage crisis - including losses from mortgage defaults by the Bear Stearns bank's hedge funds [3] and the bankruptcy of the American Home Mortgage Corporation [4]..

August 9 2007: The French bank BNP Paribas freezes its funds because it is unable to value their mortgage-backed assets. [5]

September 12 2008 The Lehman Brothers investment bank becomes bankrupt [6][7] with losses of up to $160 billion to holders of its unsecured bonds prompting a sudden loss of confidence in money market funds and the onset of a credit crunch.

The UK offers unlimited support to all UK banks by capital support, equity purchase and lending guarantees [8] [9], and similar action is agreed by European Union leaders [10] and the US President[11]and there are rescues of individual banks in Europe [12][13] [14][15] and the United States [16].

A coordinated discount rate cut of half per cent by the central banks of the United States, Europe, China, Britain, Canada, Sweden and Switzerland [17](in October).
Quantitative easing (or "credit easing" in the case of the United States) is introduced by the central banks of the United States[18][19][20] (in December), the United Kingdom[21] (in January) and the Eurozone[22] (in May).

November. The first G20 summit of leaders of the Group of Twenty countries agree to take expansionary fiscal action

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 ===Monetary policy===
-* October. A [[discount rate]]  cut of half per cent by the [[central bank]]s of the United States, Europe, China,  Britain, Canada, Sweden and Switzerland [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7658958.stm].
+* A coordinated [[discount rate]]  cut of half per cent by the [[central bank]]s of the United States, Europe, China,  Britain, Canada, Sweden and Switzerland [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7658958.stm](in October).
+* [[Quantitative easing]] (or "[[credit easing]]" in the case of the United States) is introduced by the [[central bank]]s of the United States[http://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/press/monetary/20081216b.htm][http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122948091644013041.html][http://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/speech/bernanke20090113a.htm] (in December), the United Kingdom[http://www.hm-treasury.gov.uk/d/ck_letter_boe290109.pdf] (in January) and the Eurozone[http://www.ecb.int/press/pressconf/2009/html/is090507.en.html] (in May).
 ===Fiscal policy===