depression

a mental state characterized by a pessimistic sense of inadequacy and a despondent lack of activity a long-term economic state characterized by unemployment and low prices and low levels of trade and investment a sunken or depressed geological formation sad feelings of gloom and inadequacy a period during the 1930s when there was a worldwide economic depression and mass unemployment an air mass of lower pressure

often brings precipitation

"a low moved in over night bringing sleet and snow" a state of depression and anhedonia so severe as to require clinical intervention a concavity in a surface produced by pressing

"he left the impression of his fingers in the soft mud" angular distance below the horizon (especially of a celestial object) pushing down

"depression of the space bar on the typewriter"

In economics, a depression is a term commonly used for a sustained downturn in the economy. It is more severe than a recession (which is seen as a normal downturn in the business cycle). Like a recession, the start of a depression is characterized by increases in unemployment, restriction of credit, reduced output and investment, price deflation (economics)deflation, numerous bankruptcies, and reduced amounts of trade and commerce. Unlike a recession, there is no official definition for a depression, even though some have been proposed. Generally it is marked by a substantial and sustained shortfall of the ability to purchase goods relative to the amount that could be produced given current resources and technology (potential output). One could say that while a recession refers to the economy "falling down," a depression is a matter of "not being able to get up." The most noted depression is the Great Depression that affected much of the world in the 1930s. Also notable is the U.S. Long Depression that lasted from the 1870s until the 1890s. The situation of Japan in the 1990s after the bubble economy popped has also been termed a depression.Today many economists believe that the combination of the social safety net and a much better understanding of macroeconomics makes another Great Depression highly unlikely. Others believe that with growing US deficits, increasing bankruptcies, the attainment of peak oil, plus other factors, the US is in the early stages of the next great depression.

See also -

Recession

List of recessionsList of recessions and depressions

business cycle

deflation (economics)deflation

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