"Topic-of-the-day"

All new is well forgotten old.

The postcard depicts obvious irony, in relation to the owners of cars on internal combustion engines. Apparently, this card refers to the "Great Depression", the economic crisis of the United States from 1929 to 1939.

It was the longest and most severe depression ever experienced by the industrialized Western world. Sparking fundamental changes in economic institutions, macroeconomic policy, and economic theory. Although it originated in the United States, the Great Depression caused drastic declines in output, severe unemployment, and acute deflation in almost every country of the world. Its social and cultural effects were no less staggering, especially in the United States, where the Great Depression represented the harshest adversity faced by Americans since the Civil War.