The scale of the American authorities' response reflects both the violence with which this crisis has spread, and the determination of the American authorities, most importantly Mr Bernanke, to learn from the mistakes that made the Depression so deep and long.
In the same way Great Depression thinking lingered long after the 1930s, the sense that things aren't going to get better could stick with people like Peters and her kids.
Bad decisions on trade, taxes and monetary policy turned a 1929 stock market hiccup into the 1930s-long Great Depression.
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.
Mr. Bernanke is a life-long student of the Great Depression.
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The challenges facing newspapers long predate the worst economic slump since the Great Depression.
Dr. Tator said researchers now recognize the relationship between repeated concussions and depression, a breakthrough on the way to understanding long-term neurological effects of concussions.
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The trials are likely to be long and difficult: Because of the murky and variable nature of depression, it is difficult to measure antidepressant effectiveness at all, let alone subtle differences in the timing of effectiveness.
Prof Kroszener says the key difference between a long recession and a depression is whether there are falling prices, or deflation.
But that price depression usually represents the opportunity for long-term investors to bag higher returns from these neglected stocks than from the more exciting stocks, says Haugen.
It was the only Aspen hotel to survive long pre-ski-resort winters, silver booms and busts, the Depression, and wars.
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Her grandmother, Vera Vasquez, had a difficult time with the Great Depression and seemed to be scarred by it long after.
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The boomers' parents, who are getting older and frailer, vividly remember the Depression and have held onto their homes as long as possible.
But as the evolution of finance decades earlier proves, there's quite simply no way that bank failures caused the Depression given the greater truth that finance had long before evolved away from traditional banks.
A. Bank has a long history of weathering downturns, starting as far back as the Great Depression.
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Last week, Barclays Capital recommended an equal weight position on Petrobras, citing its prospects as a good long-term hold, but warned of short term depression in the stock.
To his mind he was no more a thief of Nature than when, a country boy during the Depression, he had hooked 20-pound channel catfish, now long gone, out of the Chattahoochee River.
Trading a little over its century-long average of 10.0 today, the ratio bottomed during the 1930s Great Depression at just below 2.0 ounces of gold for one Dow unit.
The wartime cycle usually begins after a long period of commodity price deflation accompanied by an economic depression.
Another lesson from the Depression is that spending on infrastructure helps, and can also be an excellent long-term investment.
Because our economic future depends on a financial system that encourages sound investments, honest dealings, and long-term growth, we've proposed the most ambitious financial reforms since the Great Depression.
In the study, 64 percent of men who developed long-lasting sexual side effects from the drug also reported experiencing moderate or severe symptoms of depression, and nearly 40 percent reported suicidal thoughts.
In the short run, we had to add to that long-term debt figure in order to stimulate the economy and keep us from moving into a depression.
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Rothbard seems to be one of only a very few economists who truly understood the Great Depression: the reasons that it happened and the reasons that it was so deep and so long.
Your constituents are feeling the pain of the greatest economic crisis since the Great Depression -- not to mention an economy that wasn't working for a lot of them long before this particular crisis hit.
"This is probably the best in terms of long-term follow study that I've seen in terms of associating dementia with depression, " said Dr. Richard Isaacson, associate professor of neurology at the University of Miami's Miller School of Medicine, who was not involved with the research.
The length of the downturn (the longest since the Depression) and the weakness of the recovery have combined to generate an unprecedented rise in the rate of long-term unemployment.
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