Recession
A recession was an economic event.
In 2006, Blon Fel-Fotch Passameer-Day Slitheen told the Ninth Doctor that there was a recession "out there". As such, people were buying cheap. This motivated the Slitheen family to attempt to instigate World War III on Earth, then sell pieces of the planet. (TV: World War Three [+]Loading...["World War Three (TV story)"])
A recession occurred on Earth in the late 2000s. Around this time,[nb 1] Barack Obama promised to end the recession. (TV: The End of Time [+]Loading...["The End of Time (TV story)"])
Another recession occurred on Earth in the wake of Miracle Day in 2011. (TV: End of the Road [+]Loading...["End of the Road (TV story)"], The Gathering [+]Loading...["The Gathering (TV story)"])
On 1 December 2023, when asked about her life during an interview with Davina McCall on a television programme, Ruby Sunday listed "the pandemic, [...] the recession, and the Giggle" as events she had lived through recently. (PROSE: The Church on Ruby Road [+]Loading...["The Church on Ruby Road (novelisation)"])
A galactic recession resulted in Tryst losing his funding from the government. (TV: Nightmare of Eden [+]Loading...["Nightmare of Eden (TV story)"])
Psychic credit cards were banned on Baydafarn after their use resulted in an infinite recession. (PROSE: Only Human [+]Loading...["Only Human (novel)"])
In 21500,[nb 2] a recession led the government of Pacifico Del Rio to order the abandonment of Baby Station Beta, a baby farm in the planet's orbit. The crewmembers protested the decision as the farm's parthenogenesis machine could not legally be shut down, but all left except for accountant Jocelyn Sancerre, who secretly stayed aboard to care for the babies born in the aftermath. (TV: Space Babies [+]Loading...["Space Babies (TV story)"])
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- ↑ Both Planet of the Dead and The End of Time are referred to in dialogue as taking place after the end of Journey's End, which is set in either 2008, according to TV: The Fires of Pompeii, TV: The Waters of Mars, and AUDIO: SOS, or six weeks after the middle of May 2009, circa June, according to PROSE: Beautiful Chaos. However, the year of The End of Time is unspecified, as is whether or not it is intended to be the Christmas immediately after Journey's End.
- ↑ Space Babies, set in 21506, dates the abandonment of Baby Station Beta to six years prior.
