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After September 11, 2001, there was much talk that the United States was going to go into a depression. There was, in fact, a downturn in the economy that was considered by many to be a recession. A depression did not occur.

Why is another depression like the Great Depression of the 1930s not likely to occur?

What laws, or groups in our economy, are responsible for keeping us out of a depression?

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