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Dominating the Narrative

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:29:48 +0000

(November 20, 2009 08:57 AM, by Arnold Kling) Will Wilkinson writes, Ygesias says, "I believe that absent the [TARP] bailout, we'd be looking at even higher unemployment today." I think this is a plausible claim. But I don't know of a satisfactory way to evaluate it. It's plausible...

Cafe Hayek found this 4 days ago on econlog.econlib.org

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Chance of Great Depression Now 5%...

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 01:42:00 +0000

For 2 1/4 years now I have been saying that there is no chance of a repeat of the Great Depression or anything like it--that we know what to do and how to do it and will do it if things turn south. I don't think I can say that anymore. In my estimation the chances of another big downward shock ...

Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis found this 6 days ago on delong.typepad.com

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Delong Says Odds of Another Great Depression Reach 5%; I Assess Odds of Various Scenarios

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:13:21 +0000

Economist Brad DeLong, Department of Economics, U.C. Berkeley, is getting increasingly pessimistic. DeLong says: Chance of Great Depression Now 5%... For 2 1/4 years now I have been saying that there is no chance of a repeat of the Great Depression or anything like it--that we know what to do ...

IEHI Feed: The Hedge Fund Implode-o-Meter found this 6 days ago on globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com

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Depression multipliers

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 07:02:52 +0000

Yes, fiscal expansion is expansionary.

Economist's View found this 13 days ago on krugman.blogs.nytimes.com

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German suicide goalkeeper Robert Enke 'hid depression'

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 13:43:45 +0000

Robert Enke, the Hannover 96 and Germany goalkeeper, had suffered years of depression before he committed suicide last night.

Rover found this 13 days ago on feeds.timesonline.co.uk

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The Return of Depression Economics and the Crisis of 2008; Financial Fiasco: How America's Infatuation With Homeownership and Easy Money Created the Economic Crisis

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 09:23:30 +0000

The economic crisis of 2008-9 will no doubt spawn dozens of books. Here are two good early ones. The Nobel Prize-winning economist Krugman has extensively revised his 1999 book, The Return of Depression Economics , which focused on the emerging-market financial crises of the 1990s, to include ...

Liberalism-Capitalism-Globalisation: JohanNorberg.Net found this 14 days ago on foreignaffairs.com

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Ida weakens to depression, Gulf oil patch recovers

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 13:42:05 +0000

MOBILE, Alabama (Reuters) Ida dwindled to a tropical depression on Tuesday after crawling ashore in Alabama from the Gulf of Mexico , and oil operations in the Gulf were returning to normal after being widely disrupted by the storm. Ida, which at its peak had been a late-season Category 2 ...

The Oil Drum - Discussions about Energy and ... found this 14 days ago on news.yahoo.com

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