What is the tone of this sentence from “The Oldest and Youngest Places on Earth”? It is unknown whether the earth's youngest island will last for long, but it has already exceeded expectations.

neutral

skeptical

optimistic

puzzled

In financial aspects, a depression is a sustained, long haul downturn in monetary movement in one or more economies. it is a more extreme monetary downturn than a recession, which is a slowdown in financial action through the span of a typical business cycle. a depression is an irregular and extreme type of recession. so depression is always followed by recession but it is not correct to state that a depression always follow a recession.