Great Depression

“This is the worst recession since the Great Depression,” Gita Gopinath, the IMF’s chief economist, told reporters at a briefing. “No country has been spared.”

Rep. Greg Murphy (R-NC) predicted it will take “a couple years” to get consumer confidence back after the coronavirus pandemic but said restarting the economy will be “a lot better because we kept the infrastructure in place.”

Kevin Hassett, senior adviser to President Donald Trump and former White House Council of Economic Advisers chairman, said Monday that the United States’ second-quarter GDP could experience one the largest drops since the Great Depression due to the Chinese coronavirus pandemic.  

Some analysts predict that multiple colleges and universities around the country will be forced to close their doors in the aftermath of the Chinese virus pandemic.

Former Vice President Joe Biden said Thursday on CNN the Chinese coronavirus crisis was an “opportunity” to enact major climate change programs found in the Green New Deal.

Rush Limbaugh warned his listeners that America is headed for another Great Depression if the economy contracts any further due to the coronavirus crisis.

The Chinese coronavirus has brought unemployment to about ten million Americans in just weeks. In past times of unemployment, such depressions have been met with record low immigration levels. 

There’s another story… Another disaster movie… The one about an unstoppable financial meteor that’s about to hit 99.99 percent of our country.

Former Vice President Joe Biden complained Sunday that no one went to jail for the 2008 financial crisis, despite being in office when those officials could have been prosecuted.

On Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” host Bill Maher and former CIA Director John Brennan argued that the US is in a third national crisis that is worse than the Great Depression. Maher said, “I think we are in

Throngs of protesters from Irvine, Huntington Beach, and Laguna Niguel shouted-down an Orange County Supervisors meeting to force a reversal of the plan to set up homeless tent camps next to local city parks.

The Los Angeles City Council voted last week to develop an “emergency” plan that could operate trailer and tent encampments to house 34,000-homeless — similar to the plan developed by Orange County.

The three cities where Orange County planned to erect tent camps to warehouse evicted Santa Ana River homeless people are threatening lawsuits to block the move.

Orange County found 13,950 used hypodermic needles left by evicted homeless people along the Santa Ana River, confirming public health concerns that led to the camps’ removal.

Bitcoin’s 3,000 percent profit, heavily concentrated ownership, and thin trading markets could be setting up the first crypto-currency for a manipulative “pump and dump” disaster.

A homeless man, Jesus Fabian Gonzalez, was arrested Sunday afternoon in Wine Country on suspicion of arson after leaving a creek bed where a fire was burning in Sonoma County’s Maxwell Farms Regional Park.

The California hepatitis A outbreak is on the verge of reaching statewide epidemic status, as cases have spread through homeless tent cities from San Diego north to Sacramento.

Friday on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” co-host Mika Brzezinski called President Donald Trump’s reaction to a Barcelona terror attack a day earlier something that made it seem that “we’re at a low point in American history.” Co-host Joe Scarborough mentioned the

Contents: Fed Reserve Chairman Janet Yellen says ‘no financial crisis in our lifetimes’; Examining the stock market bubble; Remembering Alan Greenspan as Fed Chairman; Remembering Ben Bernanke as Fed Chairman

Left-wing actress Sarah Silverman took to social media late Wednesday and called for a military coup against the Trump administration.

California’s birth rate fell in 2016 to its lowest level in history in 2016, according to a new report by the California Department of Finance.

In the last installment, we examined some positive historical precedents for a new president’s foreign policy. In this installment, we will consider positive precedents for a new president’s domestic policy.

Sarah Silverman believes that for many Americans, the country under a Donald Trump presidency resembles the country as it was in the midst of the Great Depression, only worse.

The Breitbart News White House correspondent told Curt Schilling, mighty righthander and host of Whatever It Takes, that President-elect Donald J. Trump’s Thursday meeting with President Barack Obama is more than just grip and grin; rather it is a crucial part of the peaceful transition of power.

During Tuesday night’s vice presidential debate, Indiana Governor Mike Pence said: “We’re in the slowest economic recovery since the Great Depression.”

Weak August employment growth of just 151,000 in total non-farm payrolls, along with a 1,000-job downward revision for July, may allow the U.S. Federal Reserve to delay raising interest rates despite inflation concerns.

The Los Angeles Times/USC Dornsife national tracking poll of the presidential campaign picked up a sharp uptick in African-American support for Republican nominee Donald J. Trump, which it now pegs at 14.6 percent.

When the House Minority Whip walked on stage Monday evening, it started out as a happy, routine convention speech at what is quickly becoming the least conventional Democratic National Convention in a generation.

The Pew Research Center has discovered that young woman are living at home, or are living with a relative, at rate last seen during the 1940s.

Contents: Greece heads for further chaos with referendum on Sunday; IMF report on Greece raising concerns about IMF’s credibility; China hunts for ‘stock manipulators’ as market crashes

Tuesday on Fox News Channel’s “America’s Newsroom,” host Bill Hemmer asked that considering this will be the president’s seventh year in office, how much time does Obama needed to fix the economy. In response White House press secretary Josh Earnest claimed they had “staved