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  • Recession is when your neighbour loses his job. Depression is when you lose yours. SeeTruman 868:38.

    - Ronald Wilson Reagan
      Election campaign speech, Jersey City,1 Sep.

  • It's a recession when your neighbour loses his job; it's a depression when you lose yours. See Reagan 680:55.

    - Harry S Truman
      In the Observer,13 Apr.

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