Mentions (40)
"After she lost her house in the 2008 financial crisis, she had to file bankruptcy and struggled with alcoholism. Makes me so sad how they couldn't identify her, she was aged just 57 when she was brutally murdered while homeless and sleeping on the subway 💔"
"2026 will be 18 years after the Recession really kicked in and caused a sharp decline in birth rates"
"2008 was the last real year"
"My grandpa is 85 and had a girlfriend that is 36 or so, they met in 2008 so he was 69 and the girl was 20."
"During the last recession, the Greenbrier went bankrupt"
"Bush had disastrous wars in Afghanistan and especially Iraq, the 2008 recession, No Child Left Behind, was even moreso opposed to abortion rights, PATRIOT Act, more tax cuts for rich people, ran on banning gay marriage nationally, torture, etc"
"i graduated from a no-name, mid-tier liberal arts college at the tail-end of the great recession with a completely useless degree and no clue what i wanted to do with my life"
"I remember as a child pre-financial crisis going in trips with my family to the Caribbean"
"Chilean Miners post 2008 recession, Thai Cave kids following Trump election"
"If our economy was in as bad as shape as the 08 Recession or even Great Depression would they just keep pretending everything is fine, or would it then be undeniable?"
"The 2008 recession destroyed any semblance of a stable economy I knew and drastically impacted everyone's college plans."
"all the talk of bailouts for the individual (stark difference from 08) - maybe a move towards a bottom up mentality as opposed to a trickle down mentality"
"deregulation of investment banks contributed a lot to the 2008 financial crisis"
"It feels like 2020 and 2008 had a baby."
"will it be as bad as 2008, or worse?"
"In many cases this is probably due to having experienced a lost decade in the aftermath of the financial crisis"
"what they really should be aiming for is de-neoliberalization(failed miserably in 08)"
"After the 2008 financial crisis they went from thinking Democrats and half of Republicans (their own party) were criminals to 100% of all of them are criminals."
"Gen z is the first generation to give up on the boomer dream of going to college to pursue your passion - growing up in the wake of 2008 and seeing millennials get stuck with absurd student loan debt"
"What are the chances the coming economic collapse is worse than 2008"
"I think a lot of millennials and zoomers claim the recession as one of their generations' hardships"
"Okay so we know 2008's financial crash wiped away the world millennials had spent their lives working towards slotting into."
"What does it mean that America switched its focus from tits to ass after the Great Recession?"
"Back in 2009 it was all hot bitches passing out red bull at my school."
"Plenty of American cities have tried to renew their "downtown" or CBD areas ever since the GFC."
"she got her back in 2008 or so, long before she met me"
"millennials point to the Great Recession"
"The economic factors leading to the housing crisis and 08 crash were still largely in place."
"The last time the Celtics won a NBA title was in June of 2008, shortly after that the US and the world entreated a terrible global financial crisis."
"Please tell me we aren't just running 2008 back 🤞🏻"
"Is is just cause of no Great Recession? Honestly if you don't own a home, there's a chance the Covid economic inflation was even worse for you."
"I was in steel fabrication when I was 17 and had one of those surreal cinematic experiences during the '08 recession. We had a multi-million dollar contract with a hotel builder in Seattle and he would visit our shop about once a month... One day in November of '08 he showed up in a hoodie with a we"
"Like… have people even made new content since 2008?"
"As a shopping addict from a young age (consoom) I used to salivate over old post 2008 recession sales"
"Would have been somewhat financially settled by the time the recession happened"
"Court case files from USGOV v. JP Morgan paints Epstein as directly responsible for the 2008 financial crisis."
"I talk to people years later in my local area and they tell me it was so bad for them job-wise they almost committed suicide"
"There is going to be a place deep down in the pits of hell for all of the anglosphere leaders that didn't let their country's ponzi scheme property bubbles burst in '08."
"I think it was popular during the Great Recession because brands were a way for you and your family to signal that you weren't falling behind economically"
"Feels like we just fell off a cliff in 08. We can't create 'new' euphoric pop because there just isn't the market for it - ppl are filled with angst."