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Depression analogies

Economist's View found this 11/23/2008 on krugman.blogs.nytimes.com

Zero bound worries Daniel Gross pushes back against analogies with the Great Depression: Instead of workers with 5 o'clock shadows asking, "Brother, can you spare a dime?" we have clean-shaven financial-services executives asking congressmen if they can spare $100 billion. But I think he misses ...