What major economic event did Bernanke help manage?
2008 financial crisis
Dot-com bubble
2001 recession
1987 stock crash
Answer
The 2008 financial crisis, also known as the Global Financial Crisis, was a severe worldwide financial crisis that originated in the United States. It began in 2007 with a crisis in the subprime mortgage market, and developed into a full-blown international banking crisis with the collapse of the investment bank Lehman Brothers on September 15, 2008, leading to a steep decline in stock markets around the world.
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