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This article has previously been nominated to be moved. Discussions: 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.

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) reply

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

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