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The Road to Depression
guatemala-times.com - 11/29/2008
The Road to Depression
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BERKELEY - For 15 months, the United States Federal Reserve, assisted by the financial regulators of the US Treasury, have been trying to make the macroeconomic consequences of the American mortgage-backed securities financial crisis as small as possible - trying, above all, to avoid a deep ...
Was the Great Depression a monetary phenomenon?
krugman.blogs.nytimes.com - 11/29/2008
Was the Great Depression a monetary phenomenon?
— krugman.blogs.nytimes.com — Sins of omission? Has anyone else noticed that the current crisis sheds light on one of the... great controversies of economic history? A central theme of Keynes's General Theory was the impotence of monetary policy in depression-type conditions. But ... (more) Was the Great Depression a monetary phenomenon?

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online.wsj.com - 11/29/2008
The Krugman Recipe for Depression
— online.wsj.com — Paul Krugman of the New York Times has been on the attack lately in regard to the... New Deal. His new book "The Return of Depression Economics," emphasizes the importance of New Deal-style spending. He has said the trouble with the New Deal was that it ... (more) The Krugman Recipe for Depression

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latimes.com - 12/1/2008
'The Return of Depression Economics and the Crisis of 2008,' by Paul Krugman - Los Angeles Times
— latimes.com — A decade ago, Paul Krugman wrote a little book warning us that economists' triumphalism was misplaced --... that advances in economic knowledge and economic policy had not, after all, banished the prospect of big depressions from the global economy. ... (more) 'The Return of Depression Economics and the Crisis of ...

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Economist's View:  "The Road to Depression"

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"The Road to Depression"
Economist's View — ... The Road to Depression, by Brad DeLong, Project Syndicate: For 15 months, the United States Federal Reserve, assisted by the financial regulators of the US Treasury, have been trying..., above all, to avoid a deep depression. ...

As If an Invisible Hand Played a Losing Card: The Turn Towards Depression in September 2008
J. Bradford DeLong's Grasping Reality with All Eight Tentacles — ... http://www.scribd.com/doc/8292698/null http://www.guatemala-times.com/opinion/syndicated/anatomy-of-the-global-economy/570-the-road-to-depression.html ...

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