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2009-05-06 / Opinion

Downturn Déjá vu—a history lesson on the U.S. Economy

Public Commentary
by Tom Stapleton
We keep hearing it said that the current economic hard times afflicting the country are the worst since the Great Depression of the 1930's. That naturally raises the question: what were economic hard times like in the U.S. before the dismal days of that decade?

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