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Fmr. Labor Sec: "should be called a Depression"

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Re: Fmr. Labor Sec: "should be called a Depression"

Unread postby Heineken » Sun 07 Dec 2008, 18:52:51

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('vision-master', 'H')ouse values will drop at least another 20% before bottom is hit.


I think that's optimistic. Possible, but optimistic.
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Re: Fmr. Labor Sec: "should be called a Depression"

Unread postby ReverseEngineer » Sun 07 Dec 2008, 19:04:09

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('bratticus', 'B')y the time they call it a "downturn" it's a recession. By the time they call it a "recession" it's a depression.


...and by the time they call it a "depression', its a Monetary System Collapse. Then by the time they call it that, its TEOTWAWKI. Then we won't have to argue about what *they* call it, since they won't be on CNN anymore.

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Re: Fmr. Labor Sec: "should be called a Depression"

Unread postby dohboi » Mon 08 Dec 2008, 01:31:47

This from the wiki definition of depression that bas linked:

"a depression is characterized by:
--abnormal increases in unemployment,
--restriction of credit,
--shrinking output and investment,
--numerous bankruptcies,
--reduced amounts of trade and commerce,
--highly volatile relative currency value fluctuation, mostly deval.
--Price defl. or hyperinf. are also common elements of a depression."

(my formating)

Are there any elements of this that we haven't seen, aren't seeing?

I'm going with brat and re on this one.

And it is a very important point that in the Great Depression I most people were largely self sufficient farmers used to living on next to nothing, isolated from the fluctuations of the market. Few now are in that position.
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