Zillow’s reports:The Zillow Home Value Index has now fallen 26% since its peak in June 2006. That’s more than the 25.9% decline in the Depression-era years between 1928 and 1933. November marked the 53rd consecutive month of home value declines, …
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Underneath the Happy Talk, Is This As Bad as the Great Depression?
December 29th, 2010 |
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The following experts have – at some point during the last 2 years – said that the economic crisis could be worse than the Great Depression:Fed Chairman Ben BernankeFormer Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan (and see this and this)Former Fed Chairman Paul Volc…
Extreme Inequality Helped Cause Both the Great Depression and the Current Economic Crisis
December 17th, 2010 |
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It is clear that when banks become too big, it harms the economy. Economist Steve Keen says that “a sustainable level of bank profits appears to be about 1% of GDP”, and higher bank profits lead to a Ponzi economy and a depression.But most mainstre…
Depression drug may relieve pain from breast cancer treatment
December 13th, 2010 |
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A new study has found that a drug usually used to treat depression and anxiety disorder helped in reducing joint and muscle pain linked with a breast cancer treatment. The women in the University of Michigan study were taking aromatase inhibitors, a type of drug designed to block the production of estrogen, which fuels some [...]
Kirsten Dunst: “Depression Drove Me To Rehabâ€
December 10th, 2010 |
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When Kirsten Dunst checked herself into the Cirque Lodge Treatment Center back in 2008, celeb gawkers (including yours truly) assumed the usually bubbly star had gone the way of Lindsay Lohan, Tatum O’Neal, and hordes of other former Hollywood child stars. You know the Nose Candy is sweeter than a Jolly Rancher to the Children [...]
Depressed smokers ‘less likely to kick the butt’
December 8th, 2010 |
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A new study has revealed that smokers suffering from depression are less likely to stay tobacco free. Depressed smokers want to quit the nicotine habit just as much as non-depressed smokers, but the new study found that depression can put a kink in their success. The study showed that about 24 percent of surveyed callers [...]
Is Unemployment as Bad as During the Great Depression?
October 25th, 2010 |
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It is difficult to compare current unemployment with that during the Great Depression. In the Depression, unemployment numbers weren’t tracked very consistently, and the U-3 and U-6 statistics we use today weren’t used back then. And statistical “ad…
“A Sustainable Level of Bank Profits Appears to be About 1% of GDP”. Higher Bank Profits Lead to a Ponzi Economy and a Depression
August 13th, 2010 |
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I’ve previously noted that concentration of all the poker chips in a couple of hands ends the poker game.And I’ve repeatedly pointed out that when banks get too big, it hurts the economy.I’ve also noted that the government actually encouraged the big b…
Ryan Bingham: Junky Star “Depression” Bootleg Video
August 5th, 2010 |
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OSCAR WINNING SONGWRITER RELEASES NEW ALBUM AUGUST 31
In anticipation of his upcoming release, Junky Star, available August 31 on Lost Highway,
Academy Award®-winning singer/songwriter Ryan Bingham will begin previewing the new material online through the launch of the
“Bingham Bootleg Video Series”- an original collection of unreleased, acoustic versions of the 12 highly anticipated
songs. Every intimately shot bootleg video will feature Bingham performing solo, live in a variety of settings –
showcasing each individual song in its most raw & stripped down form.
The first bootleg video of the series recently debuted on The Huffington Post for the song ‘Depression,’ which will
also be the first official single release off the forthcoming Junky Star. ‘Depression,’ along with a majority of
the
songs contained on the new album, is based upon Bingham’s recent travels & reflections on the current condition of
our country, drawn from his own personal observations & experiences. The single will be available in all major
digital retailers starting August 10. The additional videos in the “Bingham Bootleg Video Series” will correspond to
the 11 remaining tracks from Junky Star (see complete track listing here ), and will continuously debut over the next
few months.
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Frank Sinatra Grandson Suicide Attempt
August 3rd, 2010 |
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Frank Sinatra, the grandson of legendary actor and “New York, New York” singer Frank Sinatra, has been hospitalized in Los Angeles after allegedly attempting suicide over the weekend. On Sunday, Sinatra, 32, was found unconscious in his Southern California home after overdosing on pills.“He’s doing okay. He had a big setback. Let’s just say it’s [...]
Internet Addicts More Likely to Develop Depression Posted By : Paddy Chang
August 3rd, 2010 |
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Gwyneth Paltrow Bryce Dallas Howard On Postpartum Depression
July 22nd, 2010 |
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In a serious edition of her often-heckled Goop newsletter, Oscar-winning actress Gwyneth Paltrow, 37, enlists the help of Twilight Saga star Bryce Dallas Howard in tackling the tough topic of postpartum depression.Paltrow reveals that she suffered from postnatal depression following the birth of her second child – son Moses in 2006. Bryce chimes in with [...]
Is a Massive Head and Shoulders Pattern Completing … Just Like On the Eve of the Second Wave Down in the Great Depression?
July 5th, 2010 |
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In January 2009, I pointed out:The Telegraph’s lead economic writer, Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, has an interesting article arguing that we are in 1931-like conditions:A big crash has already happenedThings are very gloomyBut we haven’t been hit by the bi…
Christina Aguilera opens up about her struggle with depression
June 12th, 2010 |
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Singer Christina Aguilera has revealed that she has been struggling with depression.
The Dirrty hitmaker has insisted that her feelings of sadness are ‘always right below the surface’.
She openly talked about the disorder in a new Behind The Music special on U.S. TV network VH1, confessing she’’s found creative inspiration in her darkest moments of depression, [...]
13 Celebrities With Mental Illness
June 2nd, 2010 |
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Sometimes, it’s often unclear if a celebrity’s problems are the typical ‘star syndrome’ or a deeper, more serious one — mental illness. Here are 13 celebrities with mental illness.
The Second Leg of the Great Depression Was Caused by European Defaults
May 11th, 2010 |
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Many Americans know that the Great Depression was started by the bursting of the giant Wall Street bubble of the 1920′s (fueled by the use of bank deposits on speculative gambling, which is why Glass-Steagall was passed) , which in turn caused a run o…
Work saved Emma Thompson from depression
March 29th, 2010 |
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Actress Emma Thompson says work saved her from depression during difficult times.
The Oscar winner, 50, has opened up about her life and how she began suffering from depression.
“I think my first bout of that was when I was doing Me and My Girl, funnily enough,” the Telegraph quoted her, as saying on Radio 4′’s Desert [...]
Dolly Parton considered suicide over her unfulfilled desire to be a mom
February 13th, 2010 |
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Singer songwriter Dolly Parton has opened up about the depression she went through when she could not have kids.
According to the Globe, Parton, 64, said the idea of not having children made her become so depressed during menopause in the mid-1980s, that she considered suicide.
“I went through a dark time – it lasted several months,†[...]
Alexa Ray Joel Heading Back To School To Help Young Women Battle “Heartbreak-Related Depressionâ€
January 4th, 2010 |
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Alexa Ray Joel is hangin’ tough in 2010.
The singer-songwriter daughter of musician Billy Joel and model icon Christie Brinkley, 23, was hospitalized in November after reportedly overdosing on homeopathic pills in her Manhattan apartment. In a message on her MySpace blog Saturday, the once suicidal beauty thanked her fans for standing by her and has [...]