=== Barack Obama, finanskrise og Donald Trump ===
{{Uddybende|Obamacare|Finanskrisen 2007-2009}}
Regeringspolitik, der havde til formål at fremme billige boliger,<ref>{{Cite book |title=Hidden in Plain Sight: What Really Caused the World's Worst Financial Crisis and Why It Could Happen Again |url=https://archive.org/details/hiddeninplainsig0000wall |last=Wallison |first=Peter |publisher=[[Encounter Books]] |year=2015 |isbn=978-1594037702 |author-link=Peter J. Wallison}}</ref> udbredt fejlhåndtering ved føderal regulering og virksomhedsledelse,<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/GPO-FCIC/pdf/GPO-FCIC.pdf |title=Financial Crisis Inquiry Report |year=2011 |author = [[Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission]] | ISBN = 9781607963486}}</ref> og historisk lave rentesatser af den amerikanske centralbank<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Taylor |first=John B. |author-link=John B. Taylor |access-date={{dato|21-1-2017}} |title=The Financial Crisis and the Policy Responses: An Empirical Analysis of What Went Wrong |url=http://www.nber.org/papers/w14631.pdf |journal=Hoover Institution Economics Paper Series |publisher=[[National Bureau of Economic Research]] |publication-date=januar 2009}}</ref> førte i midten af 2000'erne til en boligboble, der kulminerede i [[Finanskrisen|en finanskrise i 2008]], hvilket var landets største økonomiske nedgang siden [[depressionen]].<ref>{{Cite news |url=http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB122169431617549947 |title=Worst Crisis Since '30s, With No End Yet in Sight |last=Hilsenrath |first=Jon |date={{dato|18-9-2008}} |work=[[The Wall Street Journal]] |publisher=[[Dow Jones & Company]] |last2=Ng |first2=Serena |last3=Paletta |first3=Damian |access-date= {{dato|21-1-2017}} }}</ref> [[Barack Obama]], den første [[afroamerikansk]]e<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/barack-obama-elected-as-americas-first-black-president |title=Barack Obama elected as America's first black president |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |website=History.com |publisher=A&E Television Networks, LLC |access-date={{dato|7-10-2014}} }}</ref> og [[Multietniske amerikanere|multietniske]]<ref>{{cite news |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |date={{dato|12-11-2008}} |title=Barack Obama: Face Of New Multiracial Movement? |url=http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=96916824 |newspaper=NPR |access-date={{dato|4-10-2014}} }}</ref> præsident, blev [[Amerikanske præsidentvalg 2008|valgt i 2008]], da krisen var på sit højeste,<ref>{{cite news|title=African-American Economic Gains Reversed By Great Recession |agency=Associated Press |author=Washington, Jesse |author2=Rugaber, Chris |url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/07/10/black-recession-economy-african-americans_n_894046.html |newspaper=Huffington Post |date={{dato|9-9-2011}} |access-date={{dato|7-3-2013}} |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130616183529/http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/07/10/black-recession-economy-african-americans_n_894046.html |archive-date={{dato|16-6-2013}} }}</ref> og vedtog efterfølgende [[American Reinvestment and Recovery Act]] og [[Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act]] i et forsøg på at lindre krisens negative effekter. Selvom stimuluspakken forbedrede infrastruktur<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/23/opinion/sunday/what-the-stimulus-accomplished.html?_r=0 |title=What the Stimulus Accomplished |date={{dato|22-2-2014}} |access-date={{dato|21-1-2017}} |work=[[The New York Times]] |publisher=[[The New York Times Company]]}}</ref> og arbejdsløshed,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.igmchicago.org/igm-economic-experts-panel/poll-results?SurveyID=SV_cw5O9LNJL1oz4Xi |title= Economic Stimulus | work = IGM Polls |publisher= [[Initiative on Global Markets]] at the [[University of Chicago]] |date= {{dato|15-2-2012}} |access-date= {{dato|21-1-2017}} }}</ref> ramte Dodd-Frank forretningsinvesteringer og små banker negativt.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.hks.harvard.edu/centers/mrcbg/publications/awp/awp37|title=The State and Fate of Community Banking|last1=Lux|first1=Marshall|last2=Robert|first2=Greene|publisher=Harvard Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government |year=2015 |access-date = {{dato|21-1-2017}} }}</ref>
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