DURING the Great Depression, America’s protectionist Smoot-Hawley Act of 1930 raised tariffs on more than 900 goods. A series of retaliatory actions by other countries followed.

大萧条时期，美国1930年带有保护主义色彩的斯姆特霍利法案对900多种商品征收关税，随即招来了世界各国接二连三的报复措施。

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During the Great Depression bankers were shot at their desks by those overwhelmed during foreclosure, the family farm taken from them by the bankers.

在大萧条期间，银行家被那些受到丧失抵押品赎回权，家庭农场被银行家夺走所打击的人枪杀在办公桌前。

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S. experienced during the Great Depression, is marked by a spiral of falling wages and prices and a generally held view that declines will persist.

这种状况，美国在大衰退中也曾经历过，特点是薪资及价格不断下行，而市场普遍认为经济下滑将持续。

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The damage caused by high taxation during the Great Depression is the real lesson we should learn.

WSJ: Arthur B. Laffer: Taxes, Depression, and Our Current Troubles

Spain expects unemployment, already the worst in the developed world, to go over 24% this year, about the same experienced by the United States during the Great Depression.

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The four-day trading hiatus since the twin towers of the World Trade Center imploded on Tuesday morning has been the longest break in the U.S. since the special banking holidays ordered by Franklin Delano Roosevelt during the Great Depression.

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