I think this current Depression should be called the Greatest Starvation and not the Second Great Depression.

The Panic of 1873 was also called The Great Contraction in America and the Longest Depression in England because the people had to to wait 23 years until 1896 for recovery. The Great Depression forced us to go back and rename the Great Contraction. True it did last longer than the Great Depression of 1929-1939, but it was much less severe. The Russian demographer Borisov has proven that at least 3 million Americans and possibly as many as 7 million died from starvation in those ten years ...more...