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Second Great Depression

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 5, 2026
Entity authorityQ7762922 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Second Great Depression may refer to multiple topics, primarily about economics.

Economics

Great Recession, a period of general economic decline during the late 2000s and early 2010s

COVID-19 recession, a recession during the COVID-19 pandemic.

2020 stock market crash, a stock market crash kick-starting the COVID-19 recession.

2025 stock market crash, a stock market crash due to more aggressive tariffs than the 1930s.

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“Second Great Depression” enters the record as wikimedia disambiguation page. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Second, Great and Depression can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2020, 2025—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Second, Great and Depression.
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This entry incorporates text from “Second Great Depression” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.