Interesting report that compares our current situation to the Great Depression, based on factual evidence from multiple sources. It's a helpful analysis, which looks at unemployment, banking, housing, monetary policy and international trade in both time periods -- and concludes that we're a lot better off than our counterparts in the thirties.

Writer Carolyn Said compiles an interesting array of comparisons between the current economic crisis and The Great Depression. For anyone experiencing unemployment, facing foreclosure, with no prospects for speedy recovery, this article may be a tad too perky. Said takes a consistently chipper position that today's crisis has adequate protections to prevent another Great Depression.

Good article comparing the conditions of the Depression with those that exist in the current financial crisis.

It puts things into perspective which isn't happening a lot these days. Instead of saying "we're in the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression" like everyone is these days, it give facts and compares the two situtations. It was well researched.

This story gave a good comparision and understanding of what it really means to be in a recession.