Google Analytics Suggests That Fears of a Great Depression Are Skyrocketing

Back in April I seeded an article titled How to survive the Great Depression of 2008 - 2009. It was fairly successful, garnering 30 votes and 100 comments. Since then it has drawn a fairly steady but low number of hits, primarily from search engines. Today, I logged into Google Analytics and noticed an increase in the number of hits on that page, starting on September 15th. Not a small increase either. From September 1st through September 14th, the page got 149 hits. An September 15th alone it got the same number of hits, 149. Since then the number if hits has continued to be high. Between July 1st and September 14th, it received 356 hits. Between September 15th and September 24th, it received 896 hits.

Looking around some more I see that, of the 377 search terms that led people to my column between September 15th and September 24, 277 of them are some combination of the words 'survive' and 'depression', often coupled with the years 2008 and 2009. In contrast, only 79 of 294 keyword searches involved those terms during the previous two weeks.

This is hardly scientific, but to me it is telling about the level of anxiety that exists about the economic turmoil now facing the nation.

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