“In April, we had projected that the great lockdown of 2020 would be the worst recession since the Great Depression and the data that is coming in confirms that,” said Gita Gopinath, economic ...

The U.S. economy is still expanding, but slower growth, elevated inflation and weak hiring are keeping recession risks alive.

A new Gallup poll finds that more than half of Americans believe the economy is still in a recession or a depression, although it's actually experiencing a moderate recovery. The poll finds that 26 ...

The recent Great Recession was accompanied by a significant and sustained increase in major depression in U.S. adults, according to a Loyola study published in the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry.

As far as economic events go, true depressions are rare. Over the last century, the Great Depression of the 1930s was the only economic downturn in the U.S. that earned the distinction of being ...

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