By pure accident, I ended up on google news archives and discovered something very interesting.   I was searching for a list of companies that went bankrupt in 2009 and I came upon an odd little graph at the top of the google archive.   I’m not sure how the graph works but I’m assuming that the graph indexes the amount/volume of words used in News articles for the period in question.   Since news organization often give the readers “what they want” to read I can surmise that news articles are a reflection of societies’ needs, wants, likes and hopes.    So here are the graphs for a few key words.

The  graphs include economy & money related, recovery, depression, education, regulation, deregulation and gloom and doom famine, disease, death:

Just by looking at the graphs and the major spikes that occurred during major economic distresses such as the great depression and world war II,  I don’t think we are anywhere near the end of the current economic calamity but you can draw your own conclusions.