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What triggered the financial crisis of 2008 in the United States?
Global stock markets collapsed.
Global industrial production slowed.
American banks stopped making loans.
American housing prices dropped.
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American housing prices dropped.
The collapse of the U.S. housing bubble — rising mortgage defaults (especially subprime), falling home values, and losses on mortgage-backed securities and CDOs — triggered the financial crisis, which then caused a credit freeze, bank failures, and wider market turmoil.
The collapse of the U.S. housing bubble — rising mortgage defaults (especially subprime), falling home values, and losses on mortgage-backed securities and CDOs — triggered the financial crisis, which then caused a credit freeze, bank failures, and wider market turmoil.
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