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economistsview.typepad.com - 11/3/2008
Fed Watch: The Great Recession
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Tim Duy looks at the Fed's likely reaction to a weakening economy: The Great Recession, by Tim Duy : Economic weakness that in many ways did not qualify as recessionary turned for the worse in the third quarter. Incoming data continues to paint a picture of an economy that clearly ...
content.ksg.harvard.edu - 10/31/2008
NOW Are We In Recession?
— content.ksg.harvard.edu — Is the United States in recession? If one looked solely at the adverse shocks that have hit... the economy over the last year, one would infer an unusually high probability of a recession. If one consulted some of the most import economic ... (more) NOW Are We In Recession?

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ft.com - 10/30/2008
FT.com / In depth - Consumer data raise recession fears in US
— ft.com — Evidence that the US is in recession grew on Thursday as data showed that a sharp cutback... in consumer spending in the third quarter resulted in the economy shrinking at an annualised rate of 0.3 per cent, its weakest performance in seven years. ... (more) FT.com / In depth - Consumer data raise recession fears ...

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nakedshorts.typepad.com - 11/9/2008
Breaking...NBER calls recession
— nakedshorts.typepad.com — NakedShorts’ Obviousness Rule rule states that, even if things are obvious, they are not officially true until... some official writes for, or talks to, an official news organization to tell everybody something that everybody already knows, but ... (more) Breaking...NBER calls recession

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Really Sour this Morning
Lawrance G. Lux — I am battling a bad Cold today, one of the reasons I did not blog yesterday. It is also coming up to Election Day, and Readers should be concentrating upon political factors. I also have wondered how much the Economic Crisis has been manufactured, simply to find a Means to pay off political supporters, before the exit of the current Administration. This Post by Mark Thoma functionally outlines the concerns of Economists at the current time. It becomes a real exercise to estimate if the World will pick up the amount of Treasuries which will be generated. ...

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