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Legendary card · History
2008 financial crisis, a Legendary card
A major worldwide financial crisis centered in the United States took place in 2008.
- Rarity
- Legendary
- Domain
- History
- ATK
- 98
- DEF
- 91
- Power
- 189
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 1,000,000
Power 189 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 95 % of WikiCards cards.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- The immediate cause of the crisis was the collapse of the 2000s U.S. housing bubble, which involved excessive speculation in property values by both homeowners and financial institutions, exacerbated by predatory lending and by deficiencies in regulation.
- The first phase was the subprime mortgage crisis, which began in early 2007 as mortgage-backed securities tied to U.S. real estate, and a vast web of derivatives linked to those MBS, collapsed in value.
- A liquidity crisis spread to global institutions by mid-2007 and climaxed with the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers in September 2008, which triggered a stock market crash and bank runs in several countries.
Why it is Legendary
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The 2008 financial crisis article was read about 1,000,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 98 and blocks with 91: each hit it takes is cut by 36 %.
How to get 2008 financial crisis
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, 2008 financial crisis (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : David Shankbone, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons.




