Walter Block's Name That Depression Contest

Walter Block has published the results for his "Name that Depression" contest. The last section of the article is a list of all possible names--the original entries plus the new suggestions. Boy, that is a LONG list! But it's lots of fun, and I love lists! Here are some of my favorites (in alphabetical order):

• Attention Deficit Depression (for our lack of attention to history and its lessons)
• Dead Banks Recession
• Depression to End all Depressions
• Equal Opportunity Lender Depression
• Fed Depression and Irresponsibility Crisis (FDIC)
• Fed’s Free Money for Friends Depression
• FeD-ON-CRACK Depression
• Great Anthropogenic Global Meltdown of the Economy (GAG ME)
• Great Regression Depression
• Greater Depression
• I can’t believe there’s no butter Depression
• Mainstream-Economists-On-Crack Depression
• Morning After Depression
• Night of the Walking Fed Depression
• Peter Schiff Said So Depression
• Pump and Slump Depression
• Ron Paul was Right Depression
• The Belt Town Meltdown (as in "Beltway")
• The Boomer Boom Bust
• The Bubble Bubble
• The Central Bank Tank Depression
• The Counterfeiters' Calamity
• The Great American Crash
• The Hope For Change Depression
• The Keynesian Krack-up Katastrophe
• Under Socialism Actuarial Reality Is Postponed (USARIP) Depression
• We-Learned-Nothing-From-The-Great-Depression Depression

Like Walter Block, I, too, have a thing for alliteration and rhyme. But I also like good acronym's.

Many of the items above should have been hyphenated. For example, "Morning After Depression" should have been "Morning-After Depression" because I think the original contributor meant to use "Morning-After" as an adjective, i.e., not talking about the morning after the depression. This is because two or more words that serve as a single adjective should be hyphenated when they come before the noun they modify. See rule no. 1 here. (Sorry, grammar Nazi here!)