Word: depressionitis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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In both the presidential and congressional polls, Gallup found one overriding reason for the G.O.P. slump: the recession and fear of unemployment. In still another poll, Gallup reported that unemployment had become the problem of greatest public concern. Just a month before, 30% had listed keeping the peace as the...
TAX reduction is a rather irrevocable step. Once taxes are reduced, it will be difficult to raise them again. Should the present recession prove temporary, we would want to have them back, and fairly promptly. We can't have a deficit in both depression and boom. Life is not...
RECESSION? Depression? If you analyze deeper, you'll see we're not going into any decline. We have too great a country; we have too great a future.
The ides of March came and went last week, and brought with it the most widespread depression talk in a decade. The sound and fury were touched off by publication of the unemployment totals for February, showing 5,173,000, or 6.7% of the labor force,* out of work, considerably...
(Business on the Rocks) and new definitions, e.g., the difference between recession and depression ("A recession is when you lose your job, a depression when I lose mine"). Yet, like businessmen, the average consumer seemed more worried about his neighbor than himself.