The Great Depression (Britannica.com)

[JollyRodders]

There was a saying...When the America coughs the world catches a cold.

[1redpill4u1]

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[hater172]

Legalize weed 2012!!!

[fridaysabtu]

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[MrKrebs3]

John Maynard Keynes was a badass

[MrKrebs3]

John Maynard Keynes changed the world.

[MrsSarb]

I don't think it is possible to compare what is happening today with what happened during the Great Depression. The world is so completely different today. We have technology today that people couldn't have dreamed of during that time. We are not dealing with the drought and dust bowl scenario either. We now have social programs like Medicare and Social Security that didn't exist during that time. It's very, very different now but things are getting bad that's for sure.

[CallOnYahweh]

@MrsSarb The money is still the same. What makes you think it won't be worthless again? You think your technology will save you when you have no place to get power? I can assure you there is an energy crisis on the horizon. Read about China, Russia, Venezuela or Pakistan.

You think it won't happen again, but I can more than assure you that it has already started. Wake up and look around you. When your lights don't come on maybe you will stop watching TV and see reality as we do. It sucks

[MrsSarb]

CallOnYahweh: Actually you do make a valid point. If the dollar completely collapsed and we went into hyperinflation it would be far worse than the Depression ever was. I was referring to a general economic downturn, not a collapse. I guess I was looking at them as two different scenarios. No, I'm not naive to that possibility. It is very real possibility and will happen sooner or later. Hopefully later rather than sooner.

[CallOnYahweh]

It is ENERGY which drives the world. Money has nothing to do with it. It never has. We trade money for energy. When your money is worthless, you cannot purchase energy. The government pumped millions into the local markets before the great depression. What you don't hear is that there were actually TWO depressions. The first one they did nothing about and it adjusted. The second one scared them so much they poured all this money into it and then it collapsed.

[raider8sox]

I remember this video=)!!!

[HarborGuy]

Obama is a Socialist.............

[MrTabby5000]

so,and jesus was a liberal.

[HarborGuy]

And you are an Arse - seems it annoys you if people don't have your thinking or view of the past. Please don't be rude.........

[MrTabby5000]

shut the fuck up nazi fascist republican arse.

[CrimzenTide]

yeah I wouldn't be saying stuff like that when it's clear that you have a hatred of people that think differently, very hypocritical

[MrTabby5000]

He was a liberal,he told the wealthy to give up their wealth to follow him.I would assume that if they didn't they would burn in hell.

[weaverfever55]

Hea hea ha did you get your freebe,oboma is jacking off the nation,car dealers are selling him there shit cars an crushing good ones,FACT is ITS A NATION of crooks(gov) vs. FOOLS(we the people)Hea its all good today,FUCK TOMORROW,live like your nigger rich get some credit somewhere stupid.Oboma will jerk you off/Ho your a nigger fucker GET READY TO EAT REaLL SHIT NEXT AMERICA THE next go round comming

[kiche83]

well get ready for an even bigger depression fellas

[Carrotcake212]

A bad as this ressesion is it pales in comparison to the great depression!

[brianpez]

its congress and policy held for the last 20 years. stop with the its this pres or its that pres talk. dem or rep their both corupt and their only job is to get your money. wake up

[kimber202]

Boy, I hope we really pitch in and help all who need it by offering food, clothes, shelter. Maybe people can offer shelter with extra bedrooms in their homes, family members helping each other, whatever we can do to help each other..I really can't believe I learned about this in school, never knowing I would have to live though one...

[Americaisgreat123]

It is a shame that so many people, even historians and some economists, buy into so many fallacies on The Great Depression. Both how we got into it and how we stayed in it until WWII.

The Great Depression, with wise economic policy, should never have happened. There is absolutely no justification for how we got into The Great Depression and how we stayed in it for over a decade.

Both Hoover and FDR were complete domestic disgraces. Thinking historians and economists should not vindicate them.

[CrimzenTide]

and where is your proof?

[Americaisgreat123]

Well, the word "proof" for economic analysis is a little too blunt.

I could give you the example of the 1987 stock market crash. Very few people even know about or remember this crash even though it was larger than the 1929 crash - believe it or not. Greenspan was the fed chairman and Reagan was President. I think they all followed wise economic policies following that massive crash and we avoided not only a recession, but a depression.

[CrimzenTide]

yeah, and what made that crash that was even worse than the one in 1929 not turn into a bigger depression, was FDR's reforms. Haven't you ever heard of the SEC, AAA, TVA, CCC, etc.?

[Americaisgreat123]

Yes, and only the SEC really still exists.

Nor am I a fan of the SEC as I think they do more harm than good in 1.) Granting investors a false sense of security & 2.) Giving incentive through many of the specific regulations to keep information concealed.

For an economic analysis of the New Deal, read "New Deal or Raw Deal?" & "FDR's Folly". FDR's "reforms" is what made the Depression, "Great"....

[legacy999]

Politics at its best - What Obama is going to do is sit on this economic problem for like months if not Years then when time for relection comes up, start really trying to crop up some good news for the economy thus creating some sort of frenzy in 2012 - Same thing Bush did in 04 only his was 9/11 - Wake up we're already in a depression

[marktomarketguy]

A very poignant story my friends.

Looks as if history is repeating itself.

Thank you for the film

[gareof]

Someone should send this to our "affirmative action" prez - not that he can see anything (he's blind), but maybe someone of influence could see it - the slimey chicago THUG & his friends "Rev" (goddamamerica) Wright, Looee (nationofislam) Fckngkhan, Bill (bomb more) ayers-head and michelle ()kill whitey) osamabama ding dong are robbing the US treasury.. The "Not My President" and "Obama Lied, the Economy Died"...T-shirts & bumper stickers are flying off the rack...

[dadecountyhustler305]

My home town of Elkhart, In is now currently in a depression(-10% of GDP). It's very industrial nothing else. I saw this coming 4 years ago and knew it had nothing to offer me. So I left and things are better here in Miami, but I didn't think things were gonna get this bad

[HydroMystery]

I think magnitude of this crisis will be much greater.. than Great Depression.. I hope I'm wrong.. During Great Depression dollar had its equivalent in gold now dollar doesn't have its equivalent in paper on which dollar should be printed ..

[HydroMystery]

current situation is like copy of what was going on during Great Depression..

New Deal-Stimulus Plan... it's common knowlege New Deal didn't help the economy it was WWII .

[vze32z6n]

this is predicted to happen in about 4 years, its gonna be worse, hyper inflation,credit card debts,mortgage debts, etc which werent even a major part of the first great depression....

[HydroMystery]

Hitler emerged from Great Depression I wonder who will emerge now.

[marek4400]

the Antichrist ?

[HydroMystery]

well... Hitler was.. antichrist... too.. ..

[marek4400]

well,

he was a kind of 'mini me' antichrist .....sort of.

[lovelysprinkles]

Bush was the Antichrist. He destroyed America from within.

[marek4400]

Oh sure

and all of the sudden Obama is kissing Medvedev's and Putin's rear end; and they make it a public PR stunt and a spectacle out of his diplomacy skills.......

and NATO allies are stunned and dumbfounded.

Bush's only mistake was that he didn't go far enough.

Iran is pathological. ...

a narcissistic stump hellbent on becoming a sequoia.

Somebody's gotta chop that tree.

[pawnworks]

How is that an antichrist?

[rigdriver2626]

NO! Bush was good, obama sucks!

[simponsucks201]

we're about to hit the second depression

[LexiJoy4]

that's so scary.

[simponsucks201]

i know. i saw on the news that banks were being closed. we really need President Roosevelt again

[lordbemylight]

Wrong. FDR continued the depression, he made it worse. Obama's attempting to do the same corrupt techniques, and the Dow keeps on tumbling without any sign of bottoming out.

[marek4400]

it feels as if you are on top of a roller coaster doesn't it ?

[chutubeme]

that big "stimulus" package obama is proposing is going to cause the 2nd great depression i do not trust any politician right now !! we have to stand up for WE THE PEOPLE and not WE THE GOVERNMENT !!

[logwhitley]

Think its generally accepted that president Hovers lack of a stimulus package prolonged the depression but it is maybe a little unclear whether the New deal of President Roosevelt or the Out bake of war in Europe was the main factor in the recovery.

[ericssson]

well the stock market plunges again

why ?? maybe the greedy jews ...

[jako2918]

no it could happen again, we just need to fix it from happening.

[Eidelmania]

The hobo at the end is on top of the world. cant lose what you do have.

[aishaangelofdeath]

didn`t the great depression already start ... again ?

[senjinkira]

The Great Depression sort of started but slowly because the stock markets had not crashed yet; they're dropping drastically but they haven't reached the bottom of the pit. I bet around 10-20 years from now, the Depression will begin.

[mrjabober]

The Great Depression can never start again, there was only one Great Depression. However, another depression may happen soon. Also, the stock market can never crash again like it did on Black Tuesday/Thursday due to the safeguards instituted by FDR at the beginning of his term.

[inkey2]

to mrjaborer: I believe we could have a depression as bad or worse than the "Great Depression". It may have different causes, different roots....but non the less the same result. If people "really start panicking" they will start selling off all their stocks and start pulling cash out of the banks. I have already started pulling out cash from my bank at about $2000 a month because the news is getting so grim...and so frightening

[StylistecS]

I thought it was common knowledge that there have been worse crashes since 1929 such as the crash of 87 and the crash of 2000.

[mrjabober]

the crash of 87 was the largest crash in one day, yet the stock market did not plummet nearly as bad as 29 overall. I'm not sure what you mean about the crash of 2000, maybe you mean the crash after 9/11 which wasnt as bad either.

[lordbemylight]

2008 was worse than 1987 ever was, this is worse than 1987.

[StylistecS]

I see that you're speaking in general. But i believe there was a NASDAQ crash in 2000 which hurt the IT industry. I may be mistaken though.

[officialusa]

senjinkira... you are clueless.

[jjbiggs21]

if our country doesnt fix up this may happen again

[Fuliginosus]

The guy at 52 seconds--that's me six months from now.

[bluemonarc]

ur funny

[dandruff71]

That's me now. Been drinking a lot. Have to sell my laptop because I got laid off and running out of money soon. Please buy my laptop.

[Fuliginosus]

I suggest you hop on a freight train heading out west to the great frontier. Then you'll find a job, and the love of a good woman. Your house might be nothing fancy, butit'll be a down-to-earth dwelling for plain simple folk. Good luck, neighbour, and God bless!

[dandruff71]

I'm already out West. I have a new job starting in January but times have been tough and need to make it til my new job starts. Since my first post here and now I have had 3 people call me off Craigslist ad wanting to buy my laptop. Two are comming over tomorrow. To see it. I guess I need to delete the porn off the hard drive now.

[logwhitley]

the porn might add 20% to the laptops value...I got laid off around Sep08 start a new job in mid Feb my new salary is one third of what i was getting last year

[savgal1211]

@Fuliginosus Man, You Are HOT!!!

[MistyOwlMusic]

Interesting. For more Depression Era photographs and original song by the Thomas Brothers, watch their movie Pennyland.

[coffeetwin12]

im sad. some1 msg me on msn. r

[rewill17]

people of the united states of America, the truth is sad and scarry but we are going back to it. the money is not rolling.

[densefawg]

jfk tried to fix the 50 year error by printing silver certificates. he was assasinated for it, and the illuminati reigns on (hail king david rockefeller).

[hoosierlooker]

Gabby Hayes!!!

[Twodaystogo]

its about to happen again. like now. stupid America printing money out of nothing, not backing it on anything. i hate to see what comes out of this next crash

[BanjoNaps]

land prices will fall drastically, globally. Except in over populated areas, like Europe or Asia. Take advantage of it.

[TexarkanaBraveheart]

our grandparents and family before them,where much tougher and better quality people I believe than we are today.we couldnt a 1'

10 i believe of what they could,but maybe its whats this country needs for us to come together and stop the insanity in our country today

[densefawg]

the cause 16th amendment.

[seahorse42]

what?

[densefawg]

the market couldnt have been as manipulated as it was if our dollars were backed by gold and silver. now our dollars more than ever seem to be backed by debt. u.s. dollars were taken off the gold standard in 1913

[dave98503]

Screw the Great

Depression and your

liberal economic policies.

Had George Bush been

President, he would have invaded

all the Al Queda countries and given

everyone jobs!

These dummies were

desparate for work? You should have

shipped all the illegals out of the country.

[DaveSmithjr]

The New Deal didn't make much of an impact. Making weapons for Great Britain and France in 1939 and 1940 and entering the War in 1941 ended the Depression.

[mudbloods4ever]

history always repeats itself. be prepared.

[JackNeedles]

Get used to looking at those pictures, people, because the mother of all depressions is coming very soon( 2008-2009).

[mgilbo1]

If I was you, I'd arm your home to protect your family. A depression today will be much worse than a depression 80 years ago.

[chngdwrld]

...what's the old saying? - Those that control the money control the laws...they pass laws to prevent their acts of treason from being seen...it is an evil vs. the good of the country and we need to check it...or kill it.

[aporia82]

nowadays we also have a worldwide financial crieses caused by the american mortgage system.

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[lividmany]

You bet that the people are spoiled and won't do well. They will probably eat one another before it is all over. That is the price that must be paid for letting criminals run our financial system...

[fenderbenderjazz]

I'm afraid you are right on all points.....The first people i'm eating are the ones running the federal reserve.......MacBeth style any one?

[timtownie]

if they didny hiv munny in the first place then they widny mind when the hid nane

[siszam]

When the next depression hits, which I think will be soon, people will suffer even more than before. People are much more spoiled and selfish than they use to be.

[suburbanmonk]

your addition of this video was very timely:-)