2007 Great Recession The decade leading up to the 2007 Great Recession saw an extended expansion in the U.S. housing market, with home prices and housing credit swelling. The rise of subprime mortgages enabled borrowers with low credit ratings to buy homes well beyond their means. 

2000 Dot-com Bust If you were an investor in the late 1990s and you weren't invested in tech stocks, your friends were probably laughing at you. 

1987 Black Monday On Oct. 19, 1987, stocks plunged nearly 25% over the course of a single trading day. The day would become known as Black Monday, when the Dow Jones industrial Average experienced its steepest drop in history, falling 22.61%.

1973 Nixonomic 1972 was a good year for the Dow Jones. It gained 15% over the course of the year. Then inflation began to creep up as the economy slowed, a potent mix that would send the stock market on a slow and painful decline.

1961 Kennedy Slide The bear market during John F. Kennedy’s presidency wasn't long, but it was grueling.  After almost three decades of relatively smooth sailing in the stock market, U.S. investors were jolted back to reality — except for Warren Buffett, perhaps, who said the correction was "not to be unexpected" due to inflated stock prices.  

1937 Roosevelt's Recession Tighter fiscal and monetary policies were probably not the best strategies for an economy still struggling to recover from the Great Depression, but this was the approach President Franklin D. Roosevelt took. 

1930 Great Depression The Great Depression began with the 1929 stock market crash, which would prompt a panic sell-off by skittish investors. 

7 historic bear markets: – 2007 Great Recession – 2000 Dot-com Bust – 1987 Black Monday – 1973 Nixonomic – 1961 Kennedy Slide – 1937 Roosevelt's Recession – 1930 Great Depression

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