[giancarlostoro]

So after 2007 for people like me who arent used to the GFC acronym. Which in my case, I was 17 in 2007 and “shielded” from all of that.

[int_x]

For others like me: GFC = Global Financial Crisis

[tunesmith]

I went through the dotcom crisis and never heard of GFC until today. I've always seen it as the finsys crash.

[akirkland2]

To non-Americans, "global financial crisis" is the standard name we use for it. Inside the US (at least from my experience, when I lived there a few years ago) it was just financial crisis (without "global"), or the housing crash. Draw from that what conclusions you will about how Americans see their place in the world ;)