Collection: great depression 1932

Depressions and Recessions Correlated to Income Inequality

The Washington Wizards theory of inequality and the financial crisis By Ezra Klein The graph atop this post is one I think a lot about: It charts pre-tax income inequality over the last 100-or-so years, and seems to suggest that income inequality is a potential indicator for massive financial crises. As you can see, the [...]

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Great Depression vs Great Recession: Bruce Bartlett

This is Bruce Bartlett’s take on the Great Depression and  Today’s Great Recession.  For a comprehensive comparison go to my blog Ten Differences between the Great Recession and Today’s Great Recession. Eighty years ago this week, the stock market crashed. Although it was more a symptom of the economy’s underlying problems than a cause of [...]

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The Great Depression and the Great Recession – Thinking Back to Franklin D Roosevelt

Image via Wikipedia This is a short primer  on the Great Depression and  Today’s Great Recession.  For a comprehensive comparison go to my blog Ten Differences between the Great Recession and Today’s Great Recession. Great Recession is upon us, and while the situation seems to be slightly improving (fingers crossed), it’s the perfect time to take [...]

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Ten Major Differences between the Great Depression and Today’s Great Recession

A person who was a child during the Great Depression of the 1930s would be in his or her nineties today. There is no shared national experience of the depths and devastating human impact of the Great Depression. We feel the recession of today as being extraordinary, but how does it compare to the singular [...]

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