Eles negavam haver depressão em 1933, e fazem o mesmo em 2013.
Veja lista de 44 sinais de depressão aqui.
The Great Depression actually started in 1929, but as you will see below, as late as 1933 the Associated Press was still pumping out lots of news stories with optimistic economic headlines and many Americans still did not believe that we were actually in a depression. And of course we are experiencing a very similar thing today. The United States is in the worst financial shape that it has ever been in, our economic infrastructure is being systematically gutted, and poverty is absolutely exploding.
Since the stock market crash of 2008, the Federal Reserve has been wildly printing money and the federal government has been running trillion dollar deficits in a desperate attempt to stabilize things, but in the process they have made our long-term economic problems far worse. It would be hard to overstate how dire our situation is, and yet the mainstream media continues to assure us that everything is just fine and that happy days are here again. As I have already noted, the mainstream media was doing the exact same thing back during the days of the Great Depression. The following are actual Associated Press headlines from 1933... "Decisive Break from Panic Shown in Business Figures" "Markets Spurt To New Highs" , "New Farm Bill to End Depression"
The election of Roosevelt didn't end the depression. Years of bitter economic suffering and dust bowl conditions were still ahead. The Great Depression continued all the way up to the start of World War II, and the war years were certainly no picnic for average folks either. More than 90 million working age Americans are considered to be "not in the labor force". The labor force participation rate is the lowest that it has been in 35 years. 516,000 Americans "left the labor force" last month. That was a brand new all-time record high. The number of private sector jobs dropped by 278,000 last month. 77 percent of the jobs that have been "created" so far this year have been part-time jobs. Approximately one out of every four part-time workers in America is living below the poverty line. Right now, 40 percent of all U.S. workers are making less than what a full-time minimum wage worker made back in 1968. The U.S. trade deficit with China has hit a brand new record high. The U.S. trade deficit with the EU has hit a brand new record high. The number of U.S. households on food stamps is at a brand new record high. One of the largest furniture manufacturers in America was just forced into bankruptcy...
