If you're referring to the Great Depression, after the stock market crash, many banks lost money and closed. If you're referring to the recent recession, they lost money and became government-run.
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Recession is determined by using an old rule of thumb that says a recession occurs any time you have two consecutive quarters of negative Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth.
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