Along with a Camelot style sense, America will embrace fashions that hark back to the trying economic times of the Great Depression, Fisher predicts.

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Shocking, because it constitutes more evidence that the developed world is living in its worst economic times since the Great Depression, with yet another milestone met.

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He came to power in 1933, when the entire industrialized world was mired in the Great Depression, the worst economic slump in modern times.

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He is depressed by what he sees as a nation reverting to type after a period of gentleness - brought on originally by the Depression and the New Deal politics that came after it - which suggested to Americans that in good economic times they could afford to help each other out.

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