This inquiry leads students through an investigation of the 2007–2008 subprime-mortgage crisis that ultimately led to the Great Recession, the worst economic downturn in the United States since the Great Depression of the 1920s. The US Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission concluded that the “crisis was avoidable” and that entire sectors of the economy (e.g., financial institutions, banking regulators, policy makers, consumers) all contributed to “putting the financial system on a collision course with crisis.” By investigating the compelling question of who is to blame for the Great Recession,