Talk:2007–2008 financial crisis

Request to change section title
Wanted some feedback before making a change to the article - Currently, the article contains a section titled "Economists who predicted the crisis". I propose the section be renamed: "Notable warnings made prior to the Crisis" or something along those lines.

My justification for this is that the term "predicted" may be too strong and "Economist" fails to encompass the set of individuals outside the academic profession who were early in their warnings of the 08 crisis. Few people actually predicted the exact timing of the collapse and of those that did, even fewer could estimate the extent of the crisis and explain the variety of factors that caused it. This change would allow the section to contain all information relating to financial journalists, industry economists, academics, traders etc. who gave early and explicit warnings of the crisis (including their justification) rather than just picking out the few Economists who wrote of the dangers underpinning the subprime mortgage market prior to the collapse. Sadke4 (talk) 07:50, 21 November 2022 (UTC)

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: --Timeshifter (talk) 15:39, 22 March 2023 (UTC)
 * Commons:Template:PD-Chart and follow its links:
 * Commons:Threshold of originality#Charts

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

Global Financial Crisis
GFC historically significant.

Absence of a dedicated page is .. curious.

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


 * 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)

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)

2007–2008 financial crisis → 2007–08 financial crisis – Per, 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. &#8209;&#8209;Neveselbert (talk · contribs · email) 20:50, 16 March 2024 (UTC)


 * 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)

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.