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.
First, the Great Depression was finally becoming faint memory, as was its record of destroying stockholders while handing deflationary gains to fixed-income bonds.
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Ed's class of 1930 was trying to join the workforce in the first spring of the Great Depression.
The 2000s was the first time since the Great Depression when Hispanic immigration dropped relative the last decade.
In 1994 the firm resorted to its first layoffs since the Great Depression, after profit plunged 90% on trading losses.
You looked at -- we had the -- I think the statistic I saw, that I probably got from Dr. Romer, was that you had consecutive quarters of more than 5 percent, more than negative-5 percent economic retraction for the first time since the Great Depression.
Finally, globalisation went into reverse as the first world war and the Great Depression pushed governments further towards autarky.
The government first set a minimum wage during the Great Depression in 1938.
About this time last year, in an article published on the Huffington Post, Stanley A. Dashew described starting his first business in the midst of the Great Depression and half-dozen successful businesses since that time (not to mention 40 patents).
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This is the longest period of unemployment that high since the Great Depression, when Keynesian economics first reigned supreme.
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The first is that the UK recovered from the Great Depression a great deal faster than the US did.
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But his first term was dogged by the worst economic conditions since the Great Depression.
Congress first granted this authority to presidents in the midst of the Great Depression, so that they could swiftly reorganize the Executive Branch to respond to the changing needs of the American people and the immediate challenges of the Depression.
When I first came into office we were facing the worst recession since the Great Depression.
With the onset of the Great Depression, the national debt increased dramatically for the first time in the peacetime history of America, reaching 43% of GDP in 1938.
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And so my first priority was making sure that we prevented us from going into a Great Depression.
He first started experiencing symptoms of depression in the eighth grade, losing a great deal of weight and becoming despondent.
The first two budgets were in the midst of the worst recession since the Great Depression, so we had a different set of priorities.
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What President Obama is proposing is to maintain the failed policies of his first term, which produced the worst recovery from a recession since the Great Depression, except to add this panoply of tax rate increases on the very job creators, investors and successful small businesses the economy most needs to create jobs and the long overdue real recovery.
So our first mission was to break the momentum of the deepest and most vicious recession since the Great Depression.
The first patented version of Monopoly was launched in the United States in 1935 at the height of Great Depression.
National Donut Day was first launched in 1938 by the Salvation Army in an effort to help the needy during the Great Depression, according to the San Francisco Chronicle.
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The U.S. markets felt that another Great Depression was right around the corner, especially when Congress failed to vote in favor of TARP the first time.
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