September 13, 2009 We Have Averted Second Depression, Obama Claims Tim Reid in Washington President Obama will declare tomorrow that his economic policies saved America from a second Great Depression, but his words of reassurance risk being drowned out after a tumultuous 48 hours of protests and debate over his spending plans. Mr Obama will speak on Wall Street a year after the collapse of Lehman Brothers, an event that unleashed a global financial meltown and the worst economic crisis since the Depression. In his speech, a week before he hosts the Group of 20 financial summit in Pittsburgh, Mr...