Sentences with phrase «greatest economic depression»

Prediction: In the late 1980s, the economist Ravi Batra predicted that in 1990 there would be the greatest economic depression the world has ever seen.

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The US entered the Great Depression — one of history's great financial calamities — in the late 1920s, and the country spent most of the 1930s mired in a debilitating economic malGreat Depression — one of history's great financial calamities — in the late 1920s, and the country spent most of the 1930s mired in a debilitating economic malgreat financial calamities — in the late 1920s, and the country spent most of the 1930s mired in a debilitating economic malaise.

Even turbulent economic times can't stop Santa Claus - not even the Great Depression.

«Even during the Great Depression of the 1930s, policy rates and longer - term rates in the most affected countries (like the U.S.) were never reduced to such low levels,» wrote William White, chairman of the Economic Development and Review Committee at the OECD in Paris, in a recent paper.

«As Robert Shiller's new 2009 preface to his prescient classic on behavioral economics and market volatility asserts, the irrational exuberance of the stock and housing markets «has been ended by an economic crisis of a magnitude not seen since the Great Depression of the 1930s.

«Arguably, the time period we studied had the worst economic conditions since the Great Depression,» she says.

Of course the expenses of war can be an economic stimulus — WWII is generally thought to have shaken the U.S. out of the Great Depression — but, generally, they're not a very powerful one, write Stiglitz and Bilmes.

These loans, often made to borrowers with bad credit, no job, and no income turned into a systemic risk that eventually sent the world into its worst economic crisis since The Great Depression.

It's based on an asset that has increased in value every single year for more than 160 years, through every period of economic boom and bust, including the Great Depression.

These decades happened to coincide with The Great Depression and The Great Recession so you can see that in periods of very poor economic activity, bonds can act as stabilizer for your portfolio.

The hearing has all but anointed Carney as Britain's New World saviour — the man who is tasked with hauling Britain out of its triple - dip recession, seeing it safely through the eurozone crisis and the worst economic downturn since the great depression.

You will recall that it took us a long time to claw our way out of the Great Depression as well, which was another economic debacle born of a business friendly Republican administration.

The great depression aka the outbreak of laziness, was before our recent advances in economic theory.

«This is why people didn't figure out that it was the Great Depression until two years after the worst point in the crisis in the 1930s; and why it took decades, not months, quarters or even years, for the complete transition to the next sustainable economic expansion and bull market.

In 1931, at the height of the Great Depression, British economist John Maynard Keynes published the essay, «Economic Possibilities for...

Over this century our nation's economic output and standard of living has increased greatly, but the United States also faced many different challenges — ranging from the Great Depression of the 1930s to the Great Inflation of the 1970s and most recently the financial crisis.

The stock market crash of 1929 led to a major economic crisis known as the Great Depression.

«Orthodox economic historians have long complained about the «great depression» that is supposed to have struck the United States in the panic of 1873 and lasted for an unprecedented six years, until 1879.

In summary, a 23 - year period in which the US economy achieved the strongest real growth in its history is strangely characterised in some quarters as a «great depression», quite likely because so many economists and historians do not understand that real economic progress puts DOWNWARD pressure on prices.

Yale professor Robert Shiller shares his perspective on whether the U.S. is in the midst of a «late great depression» and how temporarily raising taxes could help stimulate economic recovery.

The Survey also evidences, however, that despite the most severe economic downturn since the Great Depression, ESOP companies on the whole continue to have increased share value, better productivity, and overwhelming support among leaders of the companies.

Well - known U.S. stock market crashes include the market crash of 1929, which resulted from economic decline and panic selling and sparked the Great Depression, and Black Monday (1987), which was also largely caused by mass panic.

The worst historical periods for investment returns have tended to cluster around major economic events such as the Great Depression, the highly inflationary environment of the 1970s and more recently the Great Recession.

The point will be this: The economy is on the mend and yields are grinding higher, but the recovery from the worst global economic crisis since the Great Depression isn't over yet.

The banking crisis and economic collapse in 2008 was the largest financial disaster in the United States since the Great Depression.

President's «economic protectionism» harkens back to errors that fueled Great Depression, say experts including 14 Nobel winnersOver a thousand economists have written to Donald Trump warning his «economic protectionism» and tough rhetoric on trade threatens to repeat the mistakes the US made in the 1930s, mistakes that plunged the world into the Great Depression.The 1,140 -LSB-...]

Black Tuesday signaled the end of a period of post-World War I economic expansion and the beginning of the Great Depression, which lasted until the beginning of World War II.

Over a thousand economists have written to Donald Trump warning his «economic protectionism» and tough rhetoric on trade threatens to repeat the mistakes the US made in the 1930s, mistakes that plunged the world into the Great Depression.

You've got a historical background in your studies of the banking crises during the Great Depression, do you see economic history making a comeback?

It sought to bring down borrowing costs and spur economic growth after the worst downturn since the Great Depression.

Fed - induced yield - seeking speculation is precisely what drove investors to seek refuge in mortgage securities, provoked the housing bubble, and ultimately produced the worst economic collapse since the Great Depression.

The U.S. has been gradually recovering from its worst economic period since the Great Depression, and to continue this progress, we need strong trading partners.

The economic and social upheaval stemming from both the Great Depression and World War II forced the United States to seek out a source of inexpensive labor to meet its manpower needs in both agriculture and railway maintenance.

We are going into a new economic depression — not just a «Great Recession» — because most spending is now on finance, insurance and real estate, not on goods and basic services.

last time we have some phony claiming a mission from God we got into two wars, one under false pretenses costing thousands of american lives, the worst economic collapse since the Great Depression and the most divided this country has ever been.

In the context of the economic crisis of the Great Depression, the moral reform precedents lent credibility to a radical understanding of the Constitution.

GOP puppet, won't work for long, the GOP is terrible with economic policies on the national level, seen all the way from the Great Depression 100 years ago.

I mean, 18 months is more than enough to turn around the largest economic disaster since the great depression right?

Three years after an implosion of the nation's financial system helped push the country into its worst economic nosedive since the Great Depression, pastors are still trying to figure out how to address people's fears from the pulpit.

If the «Moral Majority / Religious Right» was as concerned with what goes on in America's boardrooms as it is with what goes on in America's bedrooms, we probably wouldn't be in the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression!

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.

Whereas challenges to biblical faith, world war, the decline of conventional morality, economic depression, and growing expectation of another great war undermined liberal optimism, that scenario made the dispensationalist interpretation of scripture, with its predictions of a downward spiral preceding the second coming of Christ, increasingly plausible.

Economic insecurity for one people means the weakening of economic foundations in the rest of the world, as we saw with terrible seriousness in the Great DepEconomic insecurity for one people means the weakening of economic foundations in the rest of the world, as we saw with terrible seriousness in the Great Depeconomic foundations in the rest of the world, as we saw with terrible seriousness in the Great Depression.

It has been argued that the quest for success has become more modest in the 20th century, after the great concentrations of economic power have made the more sensational kinds of upward mobility less likely, and especially after the great depression.

President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, in his famous fireside chats, promised «salvation» from the economic doldrums of the Great Depression.

The economic crisis, previously viewed as an indispensable ally in helping the President enact the agenda, now appears as a malevolent agent, and a perversely ill - timed one at that, since, as Hendrik Hertzberg of The New Yorker explained, «the longest and deepest mass suffering» of the Great Recession, in contrast to the Great Depression, «has occurred with Obama in the White House.»

Steadily rising prices, the danger of continuing inflation, an economic recession as bad or worse than the Great Depression of the early 1930s, and widespread unemployment that can hit almost anywhere give plenty to worry about.

Passed the Stimulus: Signed $ 787 billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act in 2009 to spur economic growth amid greatest recession since the Great Depression.

Despite the shock of the Great Depression, expectations of upward mobility were renewed in post-war economic optimism.

Yet after 2008, we heard echoes of «recession» and «worst economic trends since the Great Depression»...