He could easily have been talking about the “Great Depression,” and from the looks of it all…

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    17 days ago

    great(adj.)

    Old English great “big, thick, stout, coarse” from West Germanic *grauta- “coarse, thick” (source also of Old Saxon grot)

    (Trimmed for humor, but not otherwise changed).