The world does not work as simple as we think, all you have to do is pull out a card and the house of cards collapses. Be it a card or a global financial crisis, or even a virus unknown to us so far. My research aim is to show how our world responds to different types of “disasters” and how they affect the economic performance of individual countries. In my paper, I have tried to examine the roots of the greatest crisis of the 21st century so far and shed light on the effects they have had worldwide. The second half of the study focuses on the present-day coronavirus pandemic that has a massive impact on our daily life. The number of those who are infected continues to rise, while economic performance declines. The virus can be just as contagious economically as it is medically. Distancing, isolation and travel restrictions lead to labor shortages and job losses in all sectors of the economy. By illustrating the data of a selected country, we can get a clear picture of which global crisis can be considered more severe in the economy.