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Depression:
A severe and prolonged recession characterized by inefficient economic productivity, high unemployment, and falling price levels.

Notes:
In times of depression, consumer's confidence and investments decrease, causing the economy to shutdown. The classical example of this occurred in the 1930s the Great Depression affected the global economy.

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ST. LOUIS -- Good Thursday morning. Time's cover is a black-and-white photo from 1931, showing unemployed men lining up at a Depression-era soup kitchen in Chicago, opened by Al Capone, in front of a sign that reads, "Free Soup, Coffee and Donuts for The Unemployed.” (Hat tip: Daniel Kile)