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SUNNY, WITH A 20 PERCENT CHANCE OF ECONOMIC CALAMITY
(www.prospect.org)
Harvard economist Robert Barro has an op-ed in today's Wall Street Journal trying to pin down the probability of a depression. He pegs it at 20 percent. He's also got a longer paper detailing his... More
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Krugman: Who Will Stop the Economic Pain?
(www.alternet.org)
We're in the midst of a crisis that bears an eerie resemblance to the onset of the Depression. How and when will it all end?
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‘Silent Depression’ victimizes Black America
(news.newamericamedia.org)
As a Black man ascends into the highest political office in the country, Black America remains mired in a “silent depression,” according to United for a Fair Economy’s State of the Dream report... More
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Deficit or Depression?
(chelseagreen.com)
Here is a fine example of why a despairing President Truman once said, "Bring me a one-armed economist." Our quote of the day comes from Martin N. Baily, an economist at the Brookings Institution, who... More
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The Body Count On Main Street
(www.inthesetimes.com)
On Oct. 4, in Los Angeles, Karthik Rajaram, 45, shot his wife, mother-in-law and three sons before turning the gun on himself. In a suicide note, Rajaram wrote that he was broke, having incurred... More
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Reading in an Age of Depression
(www.thenation.com)
Worlds shudder and collapse all the time. There's no news in that. Just ask the Assyrians, the last emperor of the Han Dynasty, the final Romanoff, Napoleon or that Ponzi-schemer Bernard Madoff. But... More
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The Next Depression?
(therealnews.com)
With markets in free fall, economist Peter Schiff opposes stimulus and printing money to fund it.
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The Mini Depression and the Maximum-Strength Remedy
(tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com)
This is not the Great Depression of the 1930s, but nor is it turning out to be merely a bad recession of the kind we've experienced periodically over the last half century. Call it a Mini Depression.... More
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Living in the Ruins
(www.motherjones.com)
Among my somewhat over-the-hill crowd—I'm 64—there's one thing friends have said to me repeatedly since the stock market started to tumble, the global economic system began to melt down, and... More
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