The Great Depression and The Great Recession

Here's an interesting article I found online that compares and contrasts the Great Depression and the current Great Recession.  This might be of interest to various foreign learners of English who have heard about the Great Depression in America in the 1930s but who do not know much about it:

http://americawhatwentwrong.org/story/Now-and-then-is-the-recession-so-different/