Uneducated farmhands flocked to cities, arriving just in time for the Great Depression of the 1930s.
The United States last suffered serious deflation during the Great Depression of the 1930s.
Uneducated farm hands flocked to cities just in time for the Great Depression of the 1930s.
Even the Great Depression of the 1930s only set the U.S. back by 30% of GDP.
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During the Great Depression of the 1930s firms laid off workers, cut wages and abandoned their welfare programmes.
In the Great Depression of the early 1930s America's output fell by 30%.
Before the great depression of 1929, the top 1% was receiving around 23.9% of all the income in the nation.
That would make it more benign than the Great Depression of the 1930s but more severe than the Great Recession of the 1970s.
Falloffs in various indicators in the world's second-largest economy resemble the plunge of countries like the U.S. into the Great Depression of the 1930s.
By the election of 1960, there was no sense that the country had shed for good the experience of the Great Depression of the 1930s.
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Ohga even compared Hashimoto to Herbert Hoover, the American president who helped bring his country and the world into the Great Depression of the 1930s.
Falloffs in various indicators in the world's second-largest economy resemble the plunge of such countries as the U.S. into the Great Depression of the 1930s.
During those two years since Lehman busted, economists have been urging our leaders to avoid repeating the missteps that helped bring on the Great Depression of the 1930s.
Its short-term model of an economy which could get stuck in depression was too obviously a product of the special conjuncture which had produced the Great Depression of 1929-33.
He wrote and spoke often of the Great Depression of the 1930s, generally assigning more blame to the government than to the notion of a free market system run amok.
The memory of the Great Depression of the 1930s and its hideous unemployment rate was still fresh, and the Phillips curve appeared to offer a magic bullet for precisely that problem.
The United States last suffered serious deflation during the Great Depression of the 1930s but Fed policymakers worry more about the threat of deflation any time prices go lower than 2 percent.
What mainly stands between the world and an economic setback worse than anything since the Great Depression of the 1930s is the present momentum of growth in America (above all) and Europe.
Just as the Great Depression of the 1930s gave rise to trade-strangling tariffs and goose-stepping goons, the Asian Crisis and its global repercussions cannot but provide ammunition to protectionists, fascists and other control freaks.
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Professor BRAD DELONG (Economics, University of California, Berkeley): You don't want to repeat the mistakes of the Great Depression, and the big mistake of the Great Depression was letting the banking system collapse.
The 32nd U.S. president led the nation out of the Great Depression and through most of World War II.
Eight decades ago, in the midst of the Great Depression, the people of Boulder City were busy working on another energy project you may have heard of.
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Investors put out the welcome mat for homebuilders in the first half of the year, pushing up their share prices despite the worst pace of new-home sales since the Great Depression on expectations of a long-awaited rebound after the 2008 and 2009 slump.
The Great Recession and the Great Depression are the fallout of the exact same economic phenomenon and are only different in a few (minor) respects.
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Anyone with even rudimentary knowledge of the first Great Depression is aware of the thousands of companies, including seemingly impervious giant corporations, that ran out of cash and did not survive.
In fact, the two biggest economic disasters of the 20th century--the Great Depression in the 1930s and the Great Inflation of the 1970s--were both the result of catastrophic government mistakes, not a sudden failure of free-market capitalism.
During the worst year of the Great Depression, 1937, a writer named Napoleon Hill picked the theme out of the gutter and lifted the spirits of the country, with a best seller called Think and Grow Rich.
Since the Great Depression advocates of big government have occupied the moral high ground when it comes to debating issues.
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