Yeah, we're on the wrong path because manufacturing is up, unemployment down, and we've had continuous growth for 42 months after the worst
economic disaster since the great depression and a group of recalcitrant GOP congressmen obstructing anything that would benefit the country's growth.
I mean, 18 months is more than enough to turn around the largest
economic disaster since the great depression right?
Not exact matches
And if the global economy truly is as screwed as some believe — like Kyle Bass, for example, a Dallas fund manager Lewis encounters who predicted the sub-prime mortgage
disaster and who has
since bought an isolated ranch with its own water supply and an arsenal of weaponry, betting on severe
economic collapse — then you're probably better off saving your nickels.
The banking crisis and
economic collapse in 2008 was the largest financial
disaster in the United States
since the Great Depression.
Humphrey gave the kind of finishing speech that all Democratic candidates, especially those in trouble, had been giving
since the days of Franklin Roosevelt: vote for the Republicans and you're back to unemployment, bread lines, and general
economic disaster.
For example, Kibbutzes or hippie communies in California don't need to spend money on R&D in agriculture, or defense, or large scale law enforcement (again, you may have the luxury to exclude 1 - 3 % of psychopaths / sociopaths from a small community, and not worry about said excluded psychopaths attacking you for your communal material possessions from outside
since they are dealt with by outside society), or on
disaster preparedness, or on medical R&D, or pretty much any other
economic overhead of modern civilization.
More than seven trillion US dollars
economic damage and eight million deaths via natural
disasters since the start of the 20th century: These figures have been calculated and collected by the risk engineer Dr. James Daniell from Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT).
Since its beginning, Stearns Wharf has had its share of natural and
economic disasters, from the big earthquake in 1925 to a fire in 1973 which caused its closing.
Since this agreement was signed in 2005,
disasters have killed more than 700,000 people, and made 23 million homeless, and caused total
economic losses of more than $ 1.3 trillion, the new treaty points out.