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You know whether you're reading the news headlines in 1963 or 2019, you quickly realize the world is ending for someone somewhere every day.

That's a heavy way to start, but we're going somewhere with it. Hi, I'm Ben.

Hey, I'm knowledge. True, Ben. I mean, we think about the great depression, right?

But if there's a great depression, surely there must be dozens, if not hundreds of minor depressions, many depressions, micro depressions.

Recessions is a word that's often bandied about and you know, depending on where you grew up, you probably heard various pundits in your country, your province or your state claiming that a depression is a great depression.

Revealing that a depression rivaling the great depression was looming imminently on the horizon, looming indeed like our own super producer, Casey Pagrum.

Who looms large? The man has swag. And speaking of swag, let's talk a little bit about the 1920s in the United States, also called the Roaring 20s, right? The Gilded Age.

That's what it sounded like all the time. Because at this time, there was a woeful divide between the halves and the half-nots in the US.

And everything seemed like to pay on your position in society. Everything seemed like it was growing at this frenetic, hectic place until that is the stock market crashed in October of 1929.

What's the thing? I mean, there was this sense that everything was just hunky-dory. The well-to-do would spend their money hand-over-fist on luxury goods and dancing and all of that stuff. And the people that had less money, credit was relatively easy to come by, they were spending hand-over-fist with money they did not actually own.

And as you can see, this situation was unsustainable. Eventually, the bubble, as bubbles do, went and our country entered what is called today, the Great Depression.

By 1932, the economy contracted by 31%, and an estimated 13 million people were left unemployed for comparison. That's like 25% of the workforce.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt took office in 1932. He started something called the New Deal, which was designed to boost federal spending, create government jobs for people who couldn't get private sector jobs.

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