Synonyms for Great Depression
great depres·sion

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1. Great Depressionnoun

   the economic crisis beginning with the stock market crash in 1929 and continuing through the 1930s

2. Depression, Great Depressionnoun

   a period during the 1930s when there was a worldwide economic depression and mass unemployment

   Synonyms:
   depressive disorder, low, impression, economic crisis, imprint, slump, natural depression, clinical depression

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1. Author Chuck Palahniuk:

   We don’t have a great war in our generation, or a Great Depression but we do, we have a Great War of the spirit. We have a great revolution against the culture. The great depression is our lives. We have a spiritual depression.

2. Bill Gross:

   Cash or better yet' near cash' such as 1-2 year corporate bonds are my best idea of appropriate risks/reward investments, the reward is not much, but as Will Rogers once said during the Great Depression –.

3. Bernie Sanders:

   Wall Street's greed and recklessness and illegal behavior drove this economy into the worst recession since the Great Depression. Millions of people lost their homes, their life savings, and their jobs. And, yes, I believe that we have to break up the major financial institutions. We have to re-establish Glass-Stegall.

4. William Frey:

   Unlike the Great Depression, it’s part of a process where we’re likely to keep having slow growth.

5. Bill Gross:

   Cash or better yet' near cash' such as 1-2 year corporate bonds are my best idea of appropriate risks/reward investments, the reward is not much, but as Will Rogers once said during the Great Depression -.