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  2. FILE - In this Wednesday, March 28, 2012 file photo, veterans wait to register at a job fair at the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum in New York with a military helicopter in the background. Tens of thousands of Iraq and Afghanistan veterans face a rocky transition from the routine...
  3. LONDON, ENGLAND - MARCH 02: (EDITORS NOTE: THE MOUNT HOLDING THE COIN CONTAINS DUST AND DIRT) A 'Double Eagle' gold twenty dollar coin is displayed above a catalogue picture showing the reverse side of the coin at Goldsmith's Hall on March 2, 2012 in London, England. Nearly half a...
  4. LONDON, ENGLAND - MARCH 02: (EDITORS NOTE: THE MOUNT HOLDING THE COIN CONTAINS DUST AND DIRT) Peter Swanston of the London Mint Office holds a 'Double Eagle' gold twenty dollar coin at Goldsmith's Hall on March 2, 2012 in London, England. Nearly half a million of these coins were...
  5. Peter Swanston, chief executive of the London Mint Office, poses with a rare 1933 Double Eagle coin, before it is exhibited at Goldsmith's Hall, London, Friday, March 2, 2012. Nearly half a million Double Eagles were minted in 1933 in the midst of the Great Depression, but most of them...
  6. CHICAGO, IL - NOVEMBER 28: Traders take orders near the close of trading in the Standard & Poor's 500 stock index options pit at the Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE) on November 28, 2011 in Chicago, Illinois. All three major stock indices were sharply higher today following seven...
  7. CHICAGO, IL - NOVEMBER 28: A trader signals an offer in the Standard & Poor's 500 stock index options pit at the Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE) on November 28, 2011 in Chicago, Illinois. All three major stock indices were sharply higher today following seven straight days of...
  8. Former NBC news anchor Tom Brokaw, author of the blockbuster book “The Greatest Generation,” speaks November 3, 2011 at the Natioanl Press Club in Washington, DC. Brokaw discussed his new book, “The Time of Our Lives: Past, Present, Promise,” a broad view of how American life has...
  9. FILE - In this Sept. 19, 2011 file photo, a house with a "for sale" sign in front is seen in Newton, Mass. Home ownership over the past decade posted the biggest drop since the Great Depression as layoffs, foreclosures and the mortgage mess made it harder for people to buy or hold onto...

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The Great Depression was a severe worldwide economic depression in the decade preceding World War II. The timing of the Great Depression varied across nations, but in most countries it started in about 1929 and lasted until the late 1930s or early 1940s. It was the longest, most widespread, and deepest depression of the 20th century, and is used... Full Article At Wikipedia.org

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  1. Every time I have the privilege of meeting with our troops, I'm struck by their courage, their commitment, their selflessness, and their teamwork. They have something to teach us. Recovering from the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression is a work in progress â
    SOURCE: Moneycontrol.com 2 weeks ago
  2. We are seeing a resilient U.S. labor market continuing to recover from the deepest recession since the Great Depression
    SOURCE: New Kerala 2 weeks ago
  3. The (General Fund) budgets in 2011 will be the worst budgets the state of Alabama has faced since the Great Depression ... Anybody that’s watching this train wreck understands this is an unprecedented problem for this generation. If we get it wrong, it can wreck our state just like it’s wrecking Califor...
    SOURCE: Oanow 2 weeks ago
  4. The best way to think about this continued slump, I’d argue, is to accept the fact that we’re in a depression ... No, it’s not the Great Depression, at least not for most of us. . . . But it’s nonetheless essentially the same kind of situation that John Maynard Keynes described in the 1930s.
    SOURCE: The Washington Post 2 weeks ago
  5. Today's employment report provides further evidence that the economy is continuing to heal from the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression, but much more remains to be done to repair the damage caused by the financial crisis and the deep recession
    SOURCE: Chicago Tribune 2 weeks ago
  6. After the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, our businesses have now created more than 4.2 million new jobs over the last 26 months, more than 1 million jobs in the last six months alone
    – Barack Obama SOURCE: Los Angeles Times 2 weeks ago
  7. GDP accounting grew out of the Great Depression and became the dominant planning tool for post-war expansion ... But today economists and policy-makers alike are questioning the utility of such a narrow metric of progress, looking for more comprehensive measures that reflect the environmental and social...
    SOURCE: EurekAlert 2 weeks ago
  8. On one level, the collection is a valuable inventory of gardens at a time when landscape design rose with the nation’s wealth and cultural aspirations but then disappeared during the Great Depression ... For Johnston admirers, the images represent a true artist at work, one who would manipulate her pict...
    SOURCE: Library of Congress Blog 2 weeks ago
  9. In the weakest recovery since the Great Depression, more than four-fifths of the reduction in unemployment has been accomplished by a dropping adult labor force participation rate — essentially persuading adults they don’t need a job, or the job they could find is not worth having
    SOURCE: Outside the Beltway 2 weeks ago
  10. I love the idea that the house has lived through the Civil War and so many eras of American history — World War I and II, the Great Depression. The house has been through so much.
    SOURCE: St. Louis Post-Dispatch 2 weeks ago
  11. John Kerry's response? He's talking about the Great Depression. One thing is for sure: pessimism never created a job.
    SOURCE: The Huffington Post 2 weeks ago
  12. the twenties and thirties, a time of massive inequality and personal vulnerability which presaged the Great Depression.
    SOURCE: Winnipeg Free Press 2 weeks ago
  13. If they've made it through the worst recession since the Great Depression ... they'll be able to make it through the summer.
    SOURCE: Naples Daily News 3 weeks ago
  14. between 1979 and 2000, the income gap between the top 1 percent and the poorest 40 percent more than doubled … the income gap between the economic elite and everybody else is once again, as you know, the largest it’s been since the Great Depression that was triggered in 1929.
    SOURCE: Center For American Progress 3 weeks ago
  15. Today, the system of capitalism is at a crossroads just as it was during the Great Depression.
    SOURCE: Shanghai Daily 3 weeks ago
  16. History tells us that in fact a completely unmanaged economy is subject to extreme volatility, subject to extreme downturns. I know this legend that some people like that the Great Depression was somehow caused by the government or the Federal Reserve, but that's not true. The reality is it was a market...
    – Paul Krugman SOURCE: EconLog 3 weeks ago
  17. A recession ... is when the economy is going down. A depression is when it stays down for a long period of time. Remember that the Great Depression included two separate recessions and recoveries.
    – Paul Krugman SOURCE: The Washington Post 3 weeks ago
  18. They want you to focus on these other things that are distracting, that actually have little or no consequence fiscally but they can magnify ... We’re here to keep people in their homes. It’s the worst economy since the Great Depression. The things that we do work.
    SOURCE: NJ.com 3 weeks ago
  19. This was simply the levels that we had at the bottom of the Great Depression in the 1930s.
    SOURCE: NPR 3 weeks ago
  20. When coupled with the 20 percent cut in taxes he promises, it would require shrinking domestic spending to levels not seen since the Great Depression—before programs like Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid began.
    SOURCE: The Nation 3 weeks ago
  21. Rep. Webb, the economy is in the longest, most dismal slump since the Great Depression. We must loosen the chains on eager entrepreneurs!
    SOURCE: Forbes 3 weeks ago
  22. This bill is one of the most radical and extensive reforms of our liquor statutes since the Great Depression
    SOURCE: The Register Citizen 3 weeks ago
  23. Having lived through the Great Depression and family tragedy, music was a vehicle for her to get through those type life-crunching difficulties
    SOURCE: Cornwall Standard Freeholder 3 weeks ago
  24. If, during the period of the Great Depression, every church had come forth with a welfare program founded on correct principles ... we would not be in the difficulty in which we find ourselves today.
    SOURCE: Big Hollywood 3 weeks ago
  25. Did I say that? Well, I think there are a lot of analogies to what we’ve been going through to that of the Great Depression, but I don’t really think we’re in a depression, so I might have said it slightly wrong
    SOURCE: CNBC 3 weeks ago

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