Word: depressionitis
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His mother, poet Sylvia Plath, took her life in 1963 after a bout of depression. After battling the same illness for many years, Nicholas Hughes, 47, an Oxford-trained fisheries biologist, hanged himself at his Alaska home on March 16.
Most people who have no income will not live in shelters or on the streets. They will move in with friends or relatives. They will only be homeless to the extent that they no long have a place of their own to live and cannot afford one. It is a...
The positive take, if you can call it that, is that we're in a "rolling recession," as Kurt Karl, chief U.S. economist at insurer Swiss Re, said in a note to clients. "First the housing market tanked, then consumer spending plummeted, now business investment is nose-diving." Hey, at...
In case you're wondering, during the Great Depression, nonfarm employment fell 33.9%, so we're not even remotely close to that territory yet.
Read first-hand accounts of the Great Depression from the people who lived through it