摘要:Normal 0 21 MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Tabela normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0cm; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman";} This article aims to discuss and present considerations about origins, happenings and consequences which involve the current world economic crisis. It is made evident that this crisis has its origins and its split on financial sector, and it has been affecting all the world economy. The international impact, which was caused, has its roots on “Bolha da Internet” in 2001. It is shown that the crisis was, in fact, revealed to the world after February, 2007, as a financial crisis, which would happen in the heart of the capitalist system, that is, in the North-American economy. It is alerted that the crisis was and is, up to nowadays, very serious and, on several economists words, the most serious one of the capitalist system since 1929, with possibilities of transforming itself in systemic, understood as an interruption of the chain of global economy payments, interruption this one that tends to reach in a general way all the world economy sectors. Thus, on the present study it is presented chronologically, the main facts which involve the emergence, the eclosion and expansion of this current world economy crisis. It is searched to show the fact which led to its occurrence, making evident how the happenings occurred.