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19th century

• Danish state bankruptcy of 1813
• Post-Napoleonic depression (post 1815)

• Panic of 1819, a U.S. recession with bank failures; culmination of U.S.'s first boom-to-bust economic cycle
• Panic of 1825, a pervasive British recession in which many banks failed, nearly including the Bank of England
• Panic of 1837, a U.S. recession with bank failures, followed by a 5-year depression
• Panic of 1847, started as a collapse of British financial markets associated with the end of the 1840s railway industry boom
• Panic of 1857, a U.S. recession with bank failures
• Panic of 1866, was an international financial downturn that accompanied the failure of Overend, Gurney and Company in London

• Long Depression (1873–1896)
  • Panic of 1873, a US recession with bank failures, followed by a four-year depression
  • Panic of 1884
  • Panic of 1890
  • Panic of 1893, a US recession with bank failures
  • Australian banking crisis of 1893
  • Panic of 1896

20th century

• Panic of 1901, a U.S. economic recession that started a fight for financial control of the Northern Pacific Railway
• Panic of 1907, a U.S. economic recession with bank failures

• Wall Street Crash of 1929 and Great Depression (1929–1939) the worst depression of modern history

• OPEC oil price shock (1973)
• Secondary banking crisis of 1973–1975 in the UK

• Japanese asset price bubble (1986–2003)

• Bank stock crisis (Israel 1983)
• Black Monday (1987)

• Savings and loan crisis of the 1980s and 1990s in the U.S.
• 1991 India economic crisis
• Finnish banking crisis (1990s)
• Swedish banking crisis (1990s)
• 1994 economic crisis in Mexico

• 1997 Asian financial crisis
• 1998 Russian financial crisis
• Argentine economic crisis (1999–2002)

21st century

• Early 2000s recession
  • Dot-com bubble
• Late-2000s Financial Crisis or the Late-2000s recession, including:
  • 2000s energy crisis
  • Subprime mortgage crisis
  • United States housing bubble and United States housing market correction
  • 2008–2012 Icelandic financial crisis
  • 2008–2010 Irish banking crisis
  • Russian financial crisis of 2008–2009
  • Automotive industry crisis of 2008–2010
  • European sovereign debt crisis
• 2014 Russian financial crisis

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Nobel Laureate for Economics Paul Samuelson


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