What happened during the financial crisis?

Vice President Joe Biden said (accidentally) that "if we do everything right, if we do it with absolute certainty, there's still a 30% chance we're going to get it wrong" in February 2009 in the depths of the financial crisis as the recovery...

Would banks still have been bailed out? Most gold standard advocates would argue that had the US (and perhaps other countries) adopted the gold standard earlier, the 2008 Financial Crisis would have never precipitated in the first place. But let's assume...

Terrific: we are making a profit on American International Group (company) and the Big Banks bailout, but Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are a gaping hole. What if we hadn't bailed them out?

Argentina (in)famously defaulted on its debt in the early 2000s and is still paying the price (no pun intended). Are there countries that have faced very long-run stunted growth as a result of a financial crisis far in the past? Edit: The U.S. would...

I'm a poor student and a big Nightwing fan. Someone please fill me in on what happened during the infinite crisis. I'm totally bummed that the more recent "year later" comics don't have him communicating with the bat family at all. All I know...