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And I remembered back to about 10 years ago when I read a book by Susan Faludi called "Stiffed: The Betrayal of the American Man," in which she described how hard the recession had hit men, and I started to think about whether it had gotten worse this time around in this recession.
And four, a global recession that has fundamentally shocked consumer behaviors.
The recession has us reeling and fearful, and there's something in the air these days that is also very empowering.
At Number 10 Downing Street, David Cameron is trying to work out whether to cut more public sector jobs in order to stave off a double-dip recession.
And then there's, of course, the example that we're all too aware of: financial experts getting it so wrong that we're living through the worst recession since the 1930s.
And some of that, in fact, is due to the fact that we've had an economic recession.
Now, four years ago, Chris lost his job, unfortunately, as an art buyer at Macy's, and like so many people, he struggled to find a new one during the recession.
But the story is not just a recession story.
Today, productivity is at an all-time high, and despite the Great Recession, it grew faster in the 2000s than it did in the 1990s, the roaring 1990s, and that was faster than the '70s or '80s.
But the Great Recession in 2007 and 2008, the great crash, broke this illusion.
So the understanding of this Great Recession was that this was completely surprising, this came out of the blue, this was like the wrath of the gods.
It is possible to develop advance diagnostics of crises so that we can be prepared, we can take measures, we can take responsibility, and so that never again will extremes and crises like the Great Recession or the European crisis take us by surprise.
Bob Chapman, who runs a large manufacturing company in the Midwest called Barry-Wehmiller, in 2008 was hit very hard by the recession, and they lost 30 percent of their orders overnight.
And that — (Applause) — In the depths of a very severe economic recession, I think that there's a really important lesson there, that if you can remember your international obligations whilst you are trying to rebuild your own economy, that's really something.
Shortly after my brother's death, the Recession hit.
That company came out right during the height of the recession when people really needed extra money, and that maybe helped people overcome their objection to renting out their own home to a stranger.
You can't control a recession.
The economist Nicholas Stern said that emission reductions of more than one percent per year had only ever been associated with economic recession or upheaval.
Meteorologists and environmental scientists show the growth of major hurricanes and the recession over the years of many of the world's glaciers.
Now, if necessity is the mother of invention, I've come to believe that recession can be the father of consciousness.
And even though we were in the middle of a huge recession and millions of people were struggling to find work, I somehow thought everything would be OK.
Putting all the data together, what we found is that, contrary to popular opinion, looting did not start to get worse in Egypt in 2011 after the Arab Spring, but in 2009, after the global recession.
When the recession hit, especially, people's ability to pay was hit, as well.
But around 800 BCE, that began to change: the value of bronze declined, causing social upheaval and an economic crisis— what we would call a recession today.
A recession can be a mild decline in economic activity in a single country that lasts months, a long-lasting downturn with global ramifications that last years, or anything in between.
But high inflation that isn’t accompanied with high demand can both cause problems for an economy and eventually lead to a recession.
That forces the supply side of the economy to charge more for products that use oil, discouraging demand and potentially prompting a recession.
Psychology can also contribute to a recession.
Fear of a recession can become a self-fulfilling prophecy if it causes people to pull back investing and spending.
That can cause a recession if people have become too reliant on cheap debt and government stimulus.
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