I need help finding a full summary/report of the U.S. Recession?!?

i am writing a report on barack obama and in one of my paragraphs i will be talking about the conditions of the recession. YES I HAVE GOOGLED IT and i have been for the past 3 hours, i keep getting weird results i just need a simple summary of the causes (like the iraqi war) and some statistics. does anybody know where i can find this? and i cannot use wikipedia as a resource.