Financial crash anniversary: how the world has changed

The Week looks at the lasting economic, political and social consequences of the 2008 crisis

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(Image credit: (Don Emmert/AFP/Getty Images))

On 15 September 2008, one of the titans of Wall Street filed for bankruptcy, kicking off the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression.

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