Looking back: Dancing, movies big during Depression (The Times-Reporter)
Things were even tougher during the Depression than they are now. Unemployment hovered around 25 percent in 1933, the bleakest year. So how did people cope during those troubled times? They danced their cares away at one of the many dance halls in the area, or spent the afternoon watching a double feature at a local movie theater.
Depression Startup Financing
How to Close the Deal with Angel Investors The new “Closing Angel Investors” tool is finally finished and on sale at a low introductory price. You’re best to start off reading here before clicking the above link: Deal-Killers: How to Turn Off Angels Investors. This article will describe why you are not succeeding in getting an angel investor to pull out his or her check book.
The Inside Story on the Breakdown at theSEC
The Securities and Exchange Commission was created during the Depression to bolster confidence in financial markets and root out fraud. But under former chairman Christopher Cox, the agency was less than aggressive
How to deal with "Recession Depression" (WTSP-TV Tampa)
More men are facing unemployment than women and growing by the day. So, we get advice from a local licensed psychologist who already helps people cope with recession depression.
NYT Front Page: The D-Word
From an article by Peter Goodman at the top of the home page of the NYT: The fortunes of the American economy have grown so alarming and the pace of the decline so swift that economists are now straining to describe where events are headed, dusting off a word that has not been invoked since the 1940s: depression. — snip — Mark Zandi, chief economist of Moody’s Economy.com, now places the odds of “a mild depression” at 25 percent, up from 15 percent three months ago. In that view,
Depression Cooking with Clara
Today’s obese Americans could benefit from Grandmother’s frugal Depression-era cooking and tiny portions. Cleaning your plate will be neither difficult nor unhealthy. Here is series created by a 92-year-old Depression survivor. (Be sure to check out the “Related” links at the middle of the page.) Check out some of the episodes here. These recipes also remind me of some that my late Cuban mother-in-law would create. My husband adores meat and chicken marinated in olive oil and lemon juice.
No Depression Stops Editorial Operations, Focus Now On Community
In another chapter of the ongoing struggles for No Depression, publisher Kyla Fairchild has posted that operational expenses has forced the new website incarnation ” to discontinue the editorial budget at the present time.” In other words, no more original content, record reviews, interviews, and stories. ND was THE editorial beacon for the growing alt.country/roots/Americana music scene between 1995 and 2008. Their print operations ended last June due to revenue slowdown from declining su
Protein Found Linking Stress And Depression (Science Daily)
Stress, the ever-present threat to health and happy living, is tough on the brain. If the strain goes on too long, it can lead to debilitating psychological problems. Part of the reason, according to scientists, may have to do with a little-known family of proteins called kainate receptors that has recently been implicated in major depression. New research in rats may help explain one mechanism …
We need shock and awe policies to halt depression (Daily Telegraph)
As ordinary citizens with no power over the levers of policy, we watch from the sidelines, and weep. The whole global economy has tipped into a downward spiral. Trade and output are contracting at rates that outstrip the leisurely depression of the 1930s.
Silver Lining Watch
James Surowiecki notes an unusual and positive side to this depression:Historically, productivity has been “procyclical”: it rose during booms and fell during recessions. But not this time. Even as the economy did a cliff dive in the last quarter, productivity rose an impressive 3.1 per cent. And since, in theory, workers get paid more the more productive they are, their increased productivity has helped them avoid pay cuts. Share This
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