How Is China’s GDP So High?

Prior to 1979, China had a centrally planned, or command, economy under Chairman Mao Zedong’s direction. The state directed and controlled a substantial portion of the country’s economic output, setting production objectives, controlling prices, and allocating resources across the sector. All of China’s individual household farms were collectivized into big communes in the 1950s. During […]

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What Was 2008 Recession?

The Great Recession was a period of economic slump that lasted from 2007 to 2009, following the bursting of the housing bubble in the United States and the worldwide financial crisis. The Great Recession was the worst economic downturn in the United States since the 1930s’ Great Depression. Federal authorities unleashed unprecedented fiscal, monetary, and […]

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