Structural unemployment is difficult to measure, but there are hints in the data that the spike in unemployment following the crisis was not purely cyclical.

The Great Recession was a sharp decline in economic activity from 2007-2009 and was the largest economic downturn since the Great Depression.

Lehman Brothers was a global financial services firm whose bankruptcy in 2008 was largely caused by—and accelerated—the subprime mortgage crisis.

Home buyers should heed the warnings of why the Great Recession occurred in the first place.

Learn what a recession is, what an economy in a recession looks like, and why the unemployment rate tends to rise during a recession.

Recession resistant refers to an entity such as stocks, companies, or jobs that are not greatly affected by a recession.

Growth recession describes an economy that is growing at such a slow pace that more jobs are being lost than are being added.

The Great Recession was not kind to seniors, but most have managed to achieve full financial recovery.

An economic depression is a steep and sustained drop in economic activity featuring high unemployment and negative GDP growth.

Recession proof is a term used to describe an asset, company, industry, or other entity that is believed to be economically resistant to the effects of a recession.