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- adjective economics Characteristic of a
depression
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Examples
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I think it works very well in the kind of depressionary conditions that we find ourselves in now.
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I think it works very well in the kind of depressionary conditions that we find ourselves in now.
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I think it works very well in the kind of depressionary conditions that we find ourselves in now.
Center for American Progress Action Fund myglesias 2010
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And there are various other signs and symptoms that we might describe as "depressionary".
pfblogs.org: The Ad-Free Personal Finance Blogs Aggregator 2009
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And there are various other signs and symptoms that we might describe as "depressionary".
pfblogs.org: The Ad-Free Personal Finance Blogs Aggregator 2009
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As industry after industry lines up for government handouts and large scale money printing to meet those demands escalates, the depressionary bought will, by mid year, turn into a raging inflationary bonfire.
Pravda predicts Not a sheep 2009
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The President needs the best minds to counter the last 8 years of economic depressionary policies and that's the Real Issue!!!
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Then, when an unregulated financial sector engaged in shenanigans that caused the frequent, non-depression-causing event of a real estate downturn to set off a cascade of failures that sent the entire economy into a depressionary cycle, they were utterly incapable of explaining what made this different from every other real estate run-up and downturn, and were left offering the same explanation that has been wrong for seven decades.
Matthew Yglesias » FDR, Reagan and Our Current Predicament 2009
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That is also a concern of Italian business lobby Confindustria, whose president, Emma Marcegaglia, said Wednesday that the budget was so reliant on new taxes it would prove "depressionary."
Berlusconi Wins Passage of Austerity Plan Christopher Emsden 2011
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The economy started down a depressionary slide in 2008 and hasn't looked back.
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