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This article has previously been nominated to be moved. Please review the prior discussions if you are considering re-nomination.

Discussions:

Moved, 7 January 2011, from Financial crisis of 2007–2010 to Financial_crisis_(2007–present), see discussion.
Moved, 1 March 2011, from Financial crisis (2007–present) to Late-2000s financial crisis, see discussion.
No consensus, 6 June 2011, from Late-2000s financial crisis to Financial crisis (2007–present), see discussion.
Not moved, 8 May 2012, from 2007–2012 global financial crisis to Global Financial Crisis, see discussion.
Not moved, 10 July 2012, from 2007–2012 global financial crisis to 2007–present global financial crisis, see discussion.
No consensus, 30 July 2012, from 2007–2012 global financial crisis to Global financial crisis of 2008, see discussion.
Upheld, 19 August 2012, from MRV, 2007–2012 global financial crisis to Global financial crisis of 2008, see discussion.
Moved, 9 October 2012, from 2007–2012 global financial crisis to Financial crisis of 2007–2008, see discussion.
Not moved, 16 March 2024, to 2007–08 financial crisis, see discussion.

S&P 500 chart needed

Need S&P 500 chart covering that period, and some of the period before and after. See:

Commons:Category:S&P 500 Index

This is a standard graph, and so it is in the public domain. See image license:

Commons:Template:PD-Chart and follow its links:
Commons:Threshold of originality#Charts

--Timeshifter (talk) 15:39, 22 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Causes: Systemic crisis 197.250.199.55 (talk) 12:30, 15 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Global Financial Crisis

GFC historically significant.

Absence of a dedicated page is .. curious.

Jasonbrown1965 (talk) 11:36, 6 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Thoughts on simply adding GFC to GEC among alternative names in the first sentence of the article? Dlez (talk) 15:21, 18 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move 16 March 2024

The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: not moved. (non-admin closure) Killarnee (talk) 07:51, 24 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

2007–2008 financial crisis → 2007–08 financial crisis – Per Date Range, two-digit ending years (1881–82, but never 1881–882 or 1881–2) may be used in any of the following cases: (1) two consecutive years. ‑‑Neveselbert (talk · contribs · email) 20:50, 16 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose - from that same guideline, immediately before the section quoted: non-abbreviated years are generally preferred. No reason provided to change this, nor do I see one. PhotogenicScientist (talk) 14:10, 21 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

Acorn and its hostile acts under the CRA need to be included

Acorn and its hostile acts under the CRA need to be included 72.48.253.158 (talk) 19:39, 6 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Graphics

This is a story that is, unquestionably, best told with charts & graphs. I am certain that there are good measures of this. (For example the Russell 2000 from it's (local) peak in June '07 to it's low point in March '09, is, with say 15 years on either side of that time period, quite informative but the best graphic I found (after a 30 second search effort) is the FRED (st. louis fed) Delinquency Rate on Consumer Loans. Now, THAT would have been a good start to the article, imho. Nearly ALL (if not all) the graphics in the article as of Dec 27, 2024 are irrelevant, require a sophisticated understanding of what they're showing (to make any sort of relevant point) or are so vague as to be laughable. ... Why in the world would an article about a financial crisis start by picturing a building that housed Lehman Bros?? Have you heard the term "inside baseball"?? While I don't dispute LBs collapse 'catalyzed' the crisis, why not show a photograph of Bear-Stearns HQ or Tim Geithner both just as, if not more, relevant (at least, to the 2008 'crisis')... or even Bernanke (who should have, but did not, act to overrule Geithner's vendetta. As the market collapsed, BS was *increasing* its exposure to sub-primes, for gosh sakes, and yet the govmint 'guaranteed' their bail-out.) It is, apparently, correct that the '07 - '08 crisis was Global, yet most, if not all, of this is about the USA. With the benefit of 17 years, we ought to be able to show, clearly, the way it hit the global financial markets.40.142.176.185 (talk) 21:11, 27 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]