He came to power in 1933, when the entire industrialized world was mired in the Great Depression, the worst economic slump in modern times.
The only 40-year periods in which the economic growth was slower were those ending in the Great Depression, from 1930 to 1940.
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Four years ago, the world was mired in the deepest economic downturn since the Great Depression.
During the past couple of years, we saw landlords at the ready to make concessions of every kind as they battled high vacancy rates in the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression.
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Does anybody think that the reason that we got in such a financial mess, the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression, the worst economic crisis in a generation -- that the reason was because of too much oversight of the financial industry?
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It is irresponsible to make one that is absolutely unbreakable, even in the face of an economic depression or other national catastrophe.
When Ford opened its giant plant at Dagenham in 1931, tens of thousands of jobs provided income security in the midst of profound economic depression.
Shocking, because it constitutes more evidence that the developed world is living in its worst economic times since the Great Depression, with yet another milestone met.
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The flow briefly reversed in the 1930s, when economic depression and raids by immigration officials pushed perhaps 400, 000 people many of them American citizens south of the border.
More than one million Americans across the country would have lost their jobs in the middle of the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression.
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The president also said Tuesday that he expects nationwide unemployment to exceed 10 percent this year, reiterating that the United States is in the midst of the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression.
And we stepped up, and with the help of some of -- all the congressmen, the senators here, we passed the Recovery Act just after taking office, in the midst of the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression.
In fact, the two biggest economic disasters of the 20th century--the Great Depression in the 1930s and the Great Inflation of the 1970s--were both the result of catastrophic government mistakes, not a sudden failure of free-market capitalism.
Lott explains that in 5 of the last 6 financial crises, excluding only the Great Depression itself, booming economic growth during the recovery exceeded the decline in the previous recession by 6 percentage points.
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Right now, no issue is more important than restoring economic security for all our families in the wake of the greatest economic crisis since the Great Depression.
It would be a very positive irony if this decade of economic depression should prove the era in which science at last broke the clammy grip of psychic depression.
The Nazis rose to power on the heels of the much worse economic duress and massive unemployment in the 1930s, a global Depression that hit Germany particularly hard and one that worldwide austerity measures are now widely believed to have caused.
All it did was rack up record deficits and result in the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression.
In the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, the legal industry is taking an unprecedented beating from the sputtering economy and housing meltdown.
And then, it all culminated in the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression -- a crisis that robbed too many of our friends and our neighbors of jobs, the value of their homes, their savings.
But there are certain things that are and always have been considered emergency spending, and extending unemployment benefits to those who have lost their jobs in the worst economic recession since the Great Depression certainly qualifies for that.
As our economy continues to recover from the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression, tourism holds the promise of being an even bigger economic engine in communities across the country.
Monday marks the 83rd anniversary of the onset of the worst economic collapse in the history of the modern world: the Great Depression.
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It led to falling incomes and the slowest job growth in half a century, and the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression.
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It led to falling incomes and record deficits and the slowest job growth in half a century, and the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression.
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We tried it in the decade before I took office and it led to falling incomes, and record deficits, and the slowest job growth in half a century, and the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression.
It turns out that we were in more trouble than we had even imagined in 2008, so that by the time I was sworn in, in January of 2009, a lot of these economic policies had culminated in the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression.
We are still emerging from the worst recession since the Great Depression -- the worst economic condition that I believe anybody in this room has ever experienced.
Prior to the last four decades, deficits only occurred in extreme situations of war or severe economic setbacks, such as the Great Depression.
He worked as a lumberjack and later in a steel mill, and experienced the great economic depression of the 1930s.
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