The guy made millions during the Great Depression.

Getting my CO was both an immense relief and slightly depressing at the same time. 

If you are talking about the east side of Cleveland, it is depressed, but you can buy cheap, rents are high and you have the support of Police and fire from the City Of Cleveland.

If I had to choose metaphors, I would actually go with Bi-Polar vs Depression.

Prices are still fairly depressed in Laconia compared to surrounding towns.

Have a cold one and chill out...So what you're saying is that your local market, which I presume you know well, is currently depressed due to storm damage in an otherwise red hot nationwide market.

Bottoms will vary by region, with the sunbelt area's coming to the light first :)The expect the rustbelt who has been in a depression since the late 1970's to really take a beating.

I have no idea where he's been since, but he runs some sort of investment outfit and seems to have survived so far.The same high-risk stupid bets had brought down the system several times in the past, the most famous being the Great Depression era, which made the high-risk idea rather unpopular for quite a few years.

Any one shock to the system could easily send the economy into depression.

When I visited the houses I was so shocked that I went into a deep depression.