Depression is quickly threatening to become our generation's defining characteristic. We are medicated and hyper-individualistic. We don't know how to succeed. We have no idea how to grow. And most importantly, we are acutely aware of all of this.
It's been creeping behind Americans for many months, like a slow moving hurricane blowing winds of bankruptcy and foreclosure. On a day when the Dow Jones lost almost eight per cent, the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) officially announced that the U.S. has been in a recession since December 2007, according to the New York Times.