/biz/ - Business & Finance

>>49451206
>going to the cinema with wife to see the premiere of Ratatouille
>we just closed on our first house
>the mortgage is a bit high, but the asset growth will make us rich in no time!
>we just had to buy now, there were fewer and fewer good properties on the market.

Because America financial institutions have never made a single bad decision r-right?

>>29702929
Yeah because institutions have never caused a market to collapse before

(oh wait, those are the only times its happened)

What was happening in /biz/ during the 2008 financial crisis?

hey /biz/ can some of you who know and understand these things related to finance and economics and business explain to me how it all works and how it functions and is used and what causes things like businesses and financial and investment firms and companies to work and operate and how do economies and markets and financial inquiries work whether its expansion and going up or contraction and going down. I really want to know and understand everything to do with business and finance and how it all works especially what lead up to and caused the great recession of 2007/2008/2009 that was one of the biggest and most effective the world has ever seen and is still recovering from and feeling the effects of to this day almost a decade later. Please help me /biz/....