The financial crisis that has swept the world and is affecting us all in one way or another first reared its head in mid-2007.
The seeds of the crisis can be traced back to the dot.com bubble of the late 1990s, which caused the sharp stock market correction in 2000 and the subsequent recession in 2001.
Here’s a compilation of useful resources relating to the recent US and Global Financial Crisis.
The Global Financial Crisis: How Did We Get Into This Mess?
PART I: The Back Story
PART II: Securitization, CDOs and Sub-Prime Mortgages
PART III: Money Market Actions Fail to Stem the Tide
PART IV: Corporate Casualties Pile Up
A Timeline of Events: 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010
Financial Crisis Special Reports: The Wall Street Journal | The New York Times | The Financial Times | International Monetary Fund | World Bank | The Times
More Resources: Links, Websites & Blogs | A Visual Guide to the Financial Crisis