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.
Barring a Great Depression, big capitalization corporations soundly capitalized always come back.
Is employee depression on the radar of big business?
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But it is facing similar problems, as big-selling drugs like Zoloft, for depression, and Norvasc, for hypertension, lose patent protection.
On the other hand, chronic anxiety is a life-destroyer of the first order, and is at least as big a risk factor for suicide as is depression.
Almost every big bank and life insurance company survived the Great Depression.
Some recall that, when Franklin Roosevelt unleashed the New Deal to tackle the Depression, government grew beyond recognition and stayed big.
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All the men classified as having anxiety or depression had been diagnosed by a psychiatrist, a big plus for the study.
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It is possible that some big new threat will suddenly materialize overseas to rescue the sector from depression, but until that unlikely event occurs, the trendline will be steadily downward.
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Depression can be hard to treat and its medical status can raise big issues when payments must be characterized for tax purposes.
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America still has one of the world's most diverse banking markets, with more than 8, 000 banks and nearly 100, 000 branches, thanks partly to Depression-era laws in most states which imposed strict limits on how big banks could become.
It started with the final stages of a big bull market, then we got the second biggest bear market since the Great Depression, a five-year bull market in which stocks over doubled, the biggest bear market since the Great Depression, and the massive start of a new bull.
Just like with depression or any other mental health disorder, public (and media) perception still plays a big role.
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Kirk became a billionaire thanks to big bets on two neuroscience drugs: Vyvanse, for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, and Viibryd, for depression.
In fact the so-called spiritual crisis afflicting the West and the epidemic of depression that is following in its wake merely reflect the fact that we have run out of Big Ideas worth sacrificing for.
The answer relates to a belief that another big shoe will drop in what is now Year No. 5 of the greatest financial crisis since the Great Depression.
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