Economic decline faster than first year of great depression, page
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Topic started on 8-4-2009 @ 02:48 AM by silent thunder
Pretty ugly stuff; the charts show a much steeper downdraft than the great depression:

www.nakedcapitalism.com...

Policy this time around seems to be better, so there could be cause for hope. The picture outside the US is much worse than that in the US, for the most part.

Ouch.


reply posted on 8-4-2009 @ 09:00 AM by marg6043
reply to post by silent thunder


While our nation and the rest of the world is already in a depression, the problem with the admission of been in one is due to the fact that in modern day depression the symptoms while mimic the old depression they are not the same.

One of the problems with the so call depression scholars and experts is that they are looking for the same one by one step that created the first great depression.

In modern Depression those steps are not necessarily there but the result of the economic crisis shows that we may be in worst shape that when the first great depression hit.

If we are to look at the economic crisis now the same way that the great depression behave is not going to be much links to make it the same.

But that we are in trouble and big trouble at that is true.



reply posted on 8-4-2009 @ 09:18 AM by St Udio
well... there's a lot more 'forces' causing the trading volume/volitility today
than in the 1929-30s era.


i'm more focused on the dividend paying stocks...

seeking-Alpha.com... site tells me that $77billion in dividends has evaporated...beginning this quarter, the concerns about dividend payouts revolve around these facts/figures...

"...since 1955, the average has been 15 increases for every decrease. Now its three increases for every four decreases.”

Following are some statistics on the first quarter dividend activity:

A record 367 of the approximately 7,000 publicly owned companies that report dividend information to Standard & Poor’s Dividend Record decreased their dividend payment. This represents a 332% increase from the 83 issues that decreased their dividend during the first quarter of 2008.

A record low 283 issues announced they will increase their dividend payment – a 52.7% drop from the 598 issues that reported dividend increases during the first quarter of 2008.

Source:

S&P: Q1 Worst Quarter for Dividends Since 1955;
Companies Reduce Shareholder Payments by $77 Billion
Standard & Poor's
By: Howard Silverblatt & David R. Guarino
April 7, 2009



now, how does this facet of the stock market compare to the great-depression?
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