nakedcapitalism.com - 11/11/2008
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Restricted credit and access to foreign exchange may lead farmers to cut production, worsening agricultural price pressures. From the Financial Times : The world might face a repeat of this year’s food crisis as the credit crunch encroaches on the agricultural market, leading farmers to cut ...
economistsview.typepad.com - 11/5/2008
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economistsview.typepad.com —
The Boston Fed replies to the Minnesota Fed's
clams to the contrary. Here's the abstract, Overview, and...
Conclusion (though if you are interested, the body of the paper is not long, and there are quite a few graphs offered in support of their ...
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There is Too a Credit Crunch!
marginalrevolution.com - 11/14/2008
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marginalrevolution.com —
Frankly, I am tired of this topic but
every time I try to check the data -...
as best as I can - it doesn't seem to support the rhetoric we are hearing from people at the top [despite real problems blah, blah, blah]. Here's Paulson today : At ...
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Credit Card Crunch?
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... These ongoing bail-outs are real money representing real claims on real resources which we are giving away to the most highly-compensated class in our society. Resources we might wish we had saved for something more important like, I dunno, feeding people? ...
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