The 2008 Financial Crisis

Podcast created by: Zach Daigle and Sam Meltser

This podcast is about the events that took place leading up to, during, and after the 2008 Financial Crisis. This will include the lead up with the housing crisis, rising interest rates, and warning signs. It will also include during the crisis with bank failures, unemployment growth, GDP decline, and steps to try and mitigate the crisis. Finally, after the crisis we will get into the effects the crisis had on employment, the overall economy, GDP, and the acts/efforts passed afterwards.