[quote=kewp]Uh, how does ‘faster’ equal ‘worse’?
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It doesn’t, nor is your take representative of what the article implies. The quote was [quote]”I don’t remember any time, maybe even in the Great Depression, when things went down quite so fast, quite so uniformly around the world,” [/quote]
Taken in context he’s saying two things are working together to make things worse: the rapid speed and scope of our current circumstances is worse than what happened during the Great Depression.