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The 2008 financial crisis was the worst economic disaster since the Great Depression of 1929. It occurred despite aggressive efforts by the Federal Reserve and Treasury Department to prevent the U.S. banking system from collapsing. It led to the Great Recession. That's when housing prices fell 31.8 percent, more than during the Depression. Two years after the recession ended, unemployment was still above 9 percent. That's not counting discouraged workers who had given up looking for work. 
Causes The first sign that the economy in trouble occurred in 2006. That's when housing prices started to fall. At first, realtors applauded. They thought the overheated housing market would return to a more sustainable level.

Realtors didn't realize there were too many homeowners with questionable credit. They had taken out loans for 100 percent or more of their home's value. Many blamed the Community Reinvestment Act. It pushed banks to make loans in subprime areas, but that wasn't the underlying cause. The Gramm-Rudman Act was the real villain. It allowed banks to engage in trading profitable derivatives, which they sold to investors. These mortgage-backed securities needed mortgages as collateral. The derivatives created an insatiable demand for more and more mortgages. The Federal Reserve believed the subprime mortgage crisis would only hurt housing. It didn't know how far the damage would spread. For more, see Causes of the Subprime Mortgage Crisis. Hedge funds and other financial institutions around the world owned the MBS. They were also in mutual funds, corporate assets and pension funds. Since the original mortgages had been chopped up and resold in tranches, the derivatives were impossible to price. Why did stodgy pension funds buy such risky assets? They thought an insurance product called credit default swaps protected them. A traditional insurance company known as AIG sold these swaps. When the derivatives lost value, AIG didn't have enough cash flow to honor all swaps Banks panicked when they realized they would have to absorb the losses. They stopped lending to each other. They didn't want other banks giving them worthless mortgages as collateral. No one wanted to get stuck holding the bag.  As a result, interbank borrowing costs (known as LIBOR) rose. For more, see What Caused the 2008 Financial Crisis? Costs In 2007, the Federal Reserve began pumping liquidity into the banking system via the Term Auction Facility. It wasn't enough. In March 2008, investors went after investment bank Bear Stearns. Rumors circulated that it had too many of these by-now toxic assets. Bear approached JP Morgan Chase to bail it out. The Fed had to sweeten the deal with a $30 billion guarantee. Wall Street thought the panic was over. For more, see 2007 Financial Crisis: How They Missed the Early Clues. Instead, the situation deteriorated throughout the summer of 2008. The Treasury Department was authorized to spend up to $150 billion to subsidize and eventually take over Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. The Fed used $85 billion, which rose to $150 billion, to bail out AIG. On September 19, 2008, the crisis created a run on ultra-safe money market funds. In just one day, businesses moved a record $140 billion into even safer Treasury bonds. Companies park their day-to-day cash overnight in money market funds. If these accounts went dry, business activities and the economy would grind to a halt. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson conferred with Fed Chair Ben Bernanke. They submitted to Congress a $700 billion bailout package. Republicans blocked the bill for two weeks. For more, see 2008 Financial Crisis Timeline. But the taxpayer was never really out the full $700 billion. The Treasury Department only used $350 billion to buy bank and automotive company stocks, when the prices were low. By 2010, banks had paid back $194 billion into the TARP fund.  The other $350 billion was reserved for President Obama, who never used it. Instead, launched the $787 billion Economic Stimulus package. That put money directly into the economy instead of the banks. For more, see 2009 Financial Crisis Timeline.
Could It Happen Again? Many legislators blame Fannie and Freddie for the entire crisis. To them, the solution is to close the two agencies. The housing market would collapse if they were shut down. That's because they guarantee 90 percent of all mortgages. Furthermore, securitization (bundling and reselling loans) has spread to more than just housing. 

The government must step in to regulate. Congress passed the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform Act to prevent banks from taking on too much risk. It allows the Fed to reduce bank size for those that become too big to fail.  But it left many of the measures up to Federal regulators to sort out the details. Meanwhile, banks keep getting bigger and are pushing to get rid of even this regulation. The financial crisis of 2008 proved that banks cannot regulate themselves. Without government oversight like Dodd-Frank, they could create another global crisis. Too big to fail is a company that is so essential to the global economy that its failure would be catastrophic. The phrase arose during the 2008 financial crisis. It described why the government needed to bail out some companies. Banks, insurers, and auto companies created then sold complicated derivatives. They also traded risky loans, commodities, currencies, and stocks. That gave them an unfair competitive advantage when the economy was booming. They took over smaller firms and became even bigger. When their investments started going south, they knew the taxpayers would be forced to bail them out. The government couldn't risk global economic collapse.