Others disagreed. In any case, it was not a good time to argue it was the Great Depression, and times were difficult.

VOA: special.2009.12.29

We don't have data on individual city basis but it really looks like the housing collapse price collapse--that we're going through now is on a magnitude not paralleled since The Great Depression of the 1930s.

我们没有每一个城市的数据,但是看起来似乎房价真的崩塌了,价格崩塌-现在我们正经历着,自从三十年代大萧条以来,史无前例的衰退。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

s a more pervasive problem, a social, more global problem?-Yes.-And do you see a chance that it does reach to a level closer to the Great Depression? How bad does this get, Charlie?

那么说这是一个更加普遍的，So，it’,全球性的社会问题-没错-有没有可能,这次危机会演变成与大萧条相似的危机,查理，这会糟糕到什么地步呢？

斯坦福公开课 - 经济学课程节选

The stock market crash marked the beginning of the Great Depression -- a long,slow,painful fall to the worst economic crisis in American history.

VOA: special.2011.02.17

Woody Guthrie was a voice for labor unions and striking workers and families beaten down by the Great Depression in the nineteen thirties.

VOA: special.2009.07.27

a government- supported art program started during the economic period known as the Great Depression.

VOA: special.2009.03.23

"So today,my administration is proposing a sweeping overhaul of the financial regulatory system, a transformation on a scale not seen since the reforms that followed the Great Depression."

VOA: special.2009.06.19

The United States was suffering a great economic depression.

VOA: special.2009.02.04

"That is how the great depression deepened. That is a mistake we cannot afford to repeat."

VOA: standard.2009.04.01

In November,11,000 jobs were lost. Mr.Obama says his $787 billion stimulus plan prevented a possible collapse of the financial system or a potential second Great Depression.

VOA: standard.2009.12.06

With a fledgling recovery gaining strength, it is easy to forget how close major industrialized nations came to economic collapse less than two years ago, an outcome that almost surely would have triggered a worldwide depression rivaling the Great Depression of the 1930s.

VOA: standard.2010.04.21