The past several years have demonstrated the obvious point that inequality and depression will combine to produce flares of mass social unrest. You see this in Europe and the Middle East, where rising food prices had as much to do with the Arab Sprin

We can already see Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein acting out a Portlandia skit here. Portland, Ore., is getting its very own heliotherapy bar called...

President Obama can claim to have killed Osama bin Laden. He can reasonably take credit for helping to avert a second Great Depression. But Obama has yet to master his management of the federal government, as shown this month by the disturbing revela

This is a chart that people don't much look at these days. It's updated semi-regularly by Doug Short, and it compares the great US bear market (starting in 2000) with the great Nikkei bear and the Great Depression bear. For awhile all 3 were looking

COPENHAGEN, May 18 (Reuters) - Danish pharmaceutical group Lundbeck and Japanese partner Takeda said on Saturday that data from clinical phase III studies with the antidepressant vortioxetine had shown significant improvement in patients' symptoms.

COPENHAGEN, May 18 (Reuters) - Danish pharmaceutical group Lundbeck and Japanese partner Takeda said on Saturday that data from clinical phase III studies with the antidepressant vortioxetine had shown significant improvement in patients' symptoms.

The San Francisco Chronicle notes that it is difficult to keep track of foreclosure rates now … let alone during the Great Depression: Foreclosure rates of the late 2000s are often compared with those of the Great Depression, which took place

PHOENIX (AP) — Steven Alexander stood before the jury, looked up at a family picture and grimaced and cried as he ticked off the list of problems that have befallen him in the five years since his brother was murdered: ulcers, depression, a sep

History is repeating    

By Delusional Economics, who is determined to cleanse the daily flow of vested interests propaganda to produce a balanced counterpoint. Cross posted from MacroBusiness. Not that it should be a surprise to most MB readers, but the economic data coming

NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- On May 6, I wrote Europe was in danger of falling into a permanent recession -- a depression.Now, the European statistical agencies report France joined Italy and Spain's recessions during the first quarter, and economic activ

Name: Ben Joseph Bernanke Nicknames: BenaddictedToPrinting, Benny In For A Penny, Homo Thug Age: Out of Paper - Load MOAR Paper - 0101010101 Born: Great Depression Religion: Keynesianity and Printalam About Me: I'm a selfish pr

VANCOUVER, Canada (Bullions Bull Canada) -- Perverse reporting of economic data by the media is nothing new. However, what is newsworthy is when that same media explicitly acknowledges such perversity. Such open manipulation of the news was on displa

It should be obvious to anyone reading this blog that Spain is in an economic depression as well as bankrupt. It is equally obviously that eurozone imbalances and a flawed treaty are to blame.Finding mainstream organizations willing to admit Spain is

This extensive work supplements and verifies Rothbard’s arguments in America's Great Depression and extends theanalysis to the Roosevelt New Deal era.

A new spot for Lexus features an 11-foot-tall puppet exploring a city at night, fighting depression, and falling in love. The ad is the first in what Lexus is calling its 'Amazing in Motion' campaign. The puppet in the commercial has a 3D-printed bod

* Twenty percent of people get major depression at some time

At 27.2%, Spain is suffering the worst unemployment rate in modern history. Spain is tied with Greece, and is worse than the approximately 25% unemployment rate that the US saw during The Great Depression. The causes, by now, are familiar – the

NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- The whole of Europe is headed for a permanent recession--a depression. Austerity and labor reforms can't save it. Radical measures--abandoning the euro and deficit spending in Germany--are the only ways out. Unemployment excee

NEW YORK (ETF Expert) -- One of the most prominent names in perma-bear predicting, Nouriel Roubini, just advised that you buy stocks for a period of about two years. At that time, the professor expects a global economic depression to rock the world m

NEW YORK (ETF Expert) -- One of the most prominent names in perma-bear predicting, Nouriel Roubini, just advised that you buy stocks for a period of about two years. At that time, the professor expects a global economic depression to rock the world m

Determining whether Europe—or parts of it—is in an economic depression is difficult because there is no widely accepted definition.

The Fed may or may not be able to afford schizophrenia regarding the future of its monetary decisions (for now), but the ECB, in charge of a continent mired deep in depression, does not have that luxury. While consensus overwhelmingly expects a 25 bp

The Eurozone's PMI manufacturing reports for April are out and it's clear that the economy remains in deep depression. The good news is that in many countries things imploded at a less-worse rate than they did the month before. The bad news is that m

There's been a meme going around that in recent months, the Greek economy is showing its first signs of modest healing. It's still in a horrendous, depression state that will scar the country for years. But budget balances have been improving, and th

Yves here. Take note in particular the discussion of the state of play in Italy. Even though other countries under the German yoke are complaining, Italy is the one that can credibly defy Germany, and the Germans know it. I welcome comments from peop

New results from an Oregon study found that Medicaid coverage reduced the rate of depression and made low-income adults more financially secure, if not healthier.    

Submitted by Michael Snyder of The Economic Collapse blog, The next Great Depression is already happening - it just hasn't reached the United States yet.  Things in Europe just continue to get worse and worse, and yet most people in the United S

By Gary Gordon: One of the most prominent names in perma-bear predicting, NourielRoubini, just advised that you buy stocks for a period of about two years.At that time, the professor expects a global economic depression torock the world markets. The

A month it was the US which saw its savings rate plummet to the lowest since the start of the Second Great Depression... And now it is the Euro Area's turn to see its savings crumble to 12.2% in Q4 2012, from 12.8% previously, the lowest in, well, e

By Kate Kelland LONDON, April 29 (Reuters) - Austerity is having a devastating effect on health in Europe and North America, driving suicide, depression and...

Following Friday's mediocre US GDP report, concerns are rising that the US economy is in danger of backsliding. Europe, meanwhile, is in depression, and there are major concerns that China is sputtering out. A bunch of big questions should be answere

LONDON, April 29 (Reuters) - Austerity is having a devastating effect on health in Europe and North America, driving suicide, depression and infectious diseases and reducing access to medicines and care, researchers said on Monday.

When Spanish bonds traded at yields above 7% last Summer, the world's central banks went into a whirlwind to proclaim that these levels did not represent reality (in spite of the depression-era style economic data the nation was spewing). Fast forwar

April 24 (Reuters) - Eli Lilly and Co on Wednesday reported higher-than-expected first-quarter earnings, helped by favorable taxes and higher sales of its treatments for diabetes, depression and lung cancer.

April 24 (Reuters) - Eli Lilly and Co on Wednesday reported higher-than-expected first-quarter earnings, helped by favorable taxes and higher sales of its treatments for diabetes, depression and lung cancer.

April 24 (Reuters) - Eli Lilly and Co on Wednesday reported higher-than-expected first-quarter earnings, helped by sales of its treatments for diabetes, depression and lung cancer.

April 24 (Reuters) - Eli Lilly and Co on Wednesday reported higher-than-expected first-quarter earnings, helped by sales of its treatments for diabetes, depression and lung cancer.

Submitted by Michael Snyder of The Economic Collapse blog, The United States is a deeply unhappy place.  We are a nation that is absolutely consumed by fear, stress, anger and depression.  It isn't just our economy that is falling apart - t

The conclusion of Ohanian’s paper is quite—one is tempted to say “hardcore”—Rothbardian.

It will take "something very, very major" to get the UK out of the economic "depression" it has sunk into, the Archbishop of Canterbury says.

Brad DeLong and Barry Eichengreen in a new preface to Kindleberger's classic text argue that "We Need a Hegemon Who Won't Drive Us Crazy...": New Preface to Charles Kindleberger, "The World in Depression 1929-1939": ... Three [of Charles Kindleberger

Five years after the worst economiccrisis since the Great Depression, developing nations confront anasty pair of threats: an excruciatingly slow global recovery,and the tsunami of easy money that rich-world central bankershave unleashed as they try t

Who knew that they had delicious off-brand Thin Mints at the beginning of the 20th century? We didn’t. Yet John discovered this box of cookies that expired way back in 1914. Yet it has a UPC and brags that the cardboard is 100% post-consumer wa

Will the "Reinhart-Rogoff fiasco" change "the obviously intense desire of policy makers, politicians and pundits across the Western world to turn their backs on the unemployed and instead use the economic crisis as an excuse to slash social programs"

He rose from a poor, fatherless childhood in the Depression Dustbowl of South Dakota.

Bundesbank President Jens Weidmann does not mean to alarm you, but he thinks that Europe’s, um, difficulties could take a while to resolve. He’s just spitballing, but, you know, maybe longer than the Great Depression. “Overcoming th

DUBLIN (TheStreet) -- First thing I did after reading Alkermes'announcement about positive results from a mid-stage study of its depression drug ALKS 5461 was to make sure the company didn't enroll patients in India. Investors know from past, painful