Worst Economy Since...

A Google News search shows that the phrase "since the 1930s" has been used 7,454 times in the last month, and the phrase "since the Great Depression" has been used almost 6,000 times in the last month, and most of these news references are comparisons of today’s economic and financial conditions to the 1930s and the Great Depression. In contrast, the phrase “since the 1980s” has been used only 758 times in the last month.