He got a chance to prove this when, soon after he took over, he met Wall Street analysts to see what the firm could do about its long-depressed share price.
Despite all the loose lending promoted by the Fed, we could sink into a decades-long slump of depressed consumerism, cash hoarding and zero growth.
For such an exercise, banks would have to value these bonds not at their expected long-term values but at the current depressed market values.
Nor is it simply an argument over depressed American wages versus the long-term productivity of American labor.
That, says Mr. Jones, means returns for people buying now will be depressed relative to what the long-run potential could be.
Similarly, with the exception of slightly increasing the risk for suicidal thinking and gesturing, it does not appear that antidepressants do long-term damage in children and teenagers, and indeed, the best longer-term studies suggest that they help depressed teens really improve their lives.
Malmo had long been a depressed area, but is now the fastest-expanding city in the country.
Participating taxpayers may well benefit by repatriating foreign funds with limited earning potential into a depressed U.S. economy, a long-suffering real estate market and business opportunities lurking behind every corner.
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It obviously made it easier for him to buy shares for either a long-term investment or as part of his unquenchable thirst for stocks with depressed prices for a possible acqusition.
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Not only is the overall level of joblessness much too high but its burden is carried disproportionately by just four groups: the long-term jobless, the young, the unskilled and those living in depressed areas.
For example, the current reported inflation rate is only 1.6% (compared to a long-term average of about 3%), but this rate is depressed due to the 40% weight in the Consumer Price Index from housing.
Most analysts have forecast a long-term rise in personal savings in the U.S. as well as depressed consumption and slower growth because of it.
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