The Great Depression vs The 2008 Financial Crisis So I'm taking this finance course and my professor keeps talking about how the 2008 financial crisis was worse than the great depression. 

I have my doubts so my fellow economists, do you think the 2008 financial crisis was worse than the great depression?
2008 was a recession. 1929 was a depression. Simple as that. Unemployment rates did not hit 20% in 2008. People were literally starving in 1929. Big difference.