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- The Great Test Of Economic Intervention
- One of the constant refrains of the new boomsayers, rally-rompers, and green shootists is that we're not likely to experience a redux of the Great Depression. This time things will be different, largely because we have a much different kind of government than we had in 1930. Unfortunately, there is...
- White papers 2009-06-08
- A Case Study: Why 'Buy American' Will Make You Poorer
- Trade barriers didn't exactly cause the Great Depression, but they probably helped prolong it. Here's a lesson from history on why you want free trade, even if you think you don't. ...
- Articles 2009-04-15
- The Link Between Money and Happiness
- MoneyWatch Editorial Director Eric Schurenberg shares the effects of the economy on our mood and tips on how to keep your chin up in a downturn.
- Videos 2009-04-02
- Are You Saving Too Much?
- The economic crisis has driven families to rediscover a long-forgotten American virtue: thrift. Ironically, that's exactly what the economy doesn't need right now.The message from the Administration and the U.S. Treasury couldn't be clearer: Please start spending again, America. Your economy needs you. But we haven't been listening....
- Articles 2009-03-24
- The Debate over the Stimulus Plan
- Our optimist, Professor Menzie Chinn of the University of Wisconsin, sees a bold investment that came not a moment too soon. Our skeptic, Garett Jones of George Mason University, smells a boondoggle. Follow their debate and decide for yourself who's right…When the president signed the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act...
- Articles 2009-03-17
- The Fruits of Frugality
- Despite our recent history, Americans haven't always been spendthrifts: from 1950 to 1992, the saving rate averaged 8.6 percent. What a return to a savings rate that high might look like in terms of social habits, the country's mood, and our position in the world…In the wake of the...
- Articles 2009-03-17
- How Depressing Is a Depression?
- Financially, it's a disaster. Psychically, it might not be nearly as bad as you expect.It's becoming increasingly clear that the recession is going to be nasty, brutish, and long. Many economists project years of pain, and there's little on the horizon — even the stimulus bill — that seems likely...
- Articles 2009-03-09
- Eugene Fama: Why You Can't Time the Market
- For decades, the notion that markets are efficient has been a broadly held belief. So how could so many markets crash simultaneously? Eugene Fama, the father of the efficient market theory, answers the skeptics. His bottom line: If markets are efficiently priced, why did they crash?...
- Articles 2009-03-09
- Living Through a Recession
- Given the state of the economy and the job and real estate market, you might think we'd all be in for an extended bout of depression. But the economic crisis might not make you as miserable as you think because of the way most people adapt to their circumstances, both...
- Articles 2009-03-09
- Has Big Government Saved the Economy?
- When it comes to hard economic times, sales reps are defintely on the front line. So sales reps should breath a sigh of relief that the world economy hasn't slipped into another Great Depression. While we're definitely in a long recession, there are now enough positive economic indicators showing while...
- Blog posts 2009-08-11
- How to Make the Financial Crisis Worse
- Trade barriers. "Buy American" rules. Anti-immigrant hysteria. The protectionist fever that helped make the Depression Great shows sign of reemerging here and now. Do bad times bring out countries' inner protectionists? Yes, and there are alarming signs that it could be happening again. "This has happened in the past,"...
- Articles 2009-04-15
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- Monetary policy in the Great Depression: what the Fed did, and why. (Federal Reserve System)(includes related article)
- Sixty years ago the United States - indeed, most of the world - was in the midst of the Great Depression. Today, interest in the Depression's causes and the failure of government policies to prevent it continues, peaking whenever the stock market c Sixty...
- Research articles 1992-03-01
- Great Depression 2? Not Even Close.
- Mark J. Perry submits: Between 1931 and 1940, the MINIMUM monthly unemployment rate was 11% in July 1937, and the average jobless rate was 17.3% see chart above. It seems very likely that the MAXIMUM unemployment during the current recession won't reach the MINIMUM of 11% during the...
- External links 2009-05-11
- American Great Depression and the Japanese Heisei-Era Depression Compared - From an Institutional Approach, The
- This paper investigates the institutional causes of the Japanese Depression in the 1990s in comparison to those of the America Great Depression in the 1930s. The Japanese Depression has two similarities to the American Depression. (1) Both depressions followed the bubble economy. (2) The decades of the 1930s and 1990s...
- Research articles 2004-04-01
- The Authoritative Work on the Great Depression by Fed Chair Ben Bernanke
- PRINCETON, N.J. -- "The financial crisis has made Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke's book ESSAYS ON THE GREAT DEPRESSION a hot seller...Bernanke, a former Princeton University economist, is considered the pre-eminent living scholar of the Great Depression. He is practicing today what he preached in his book: Flood the system...
- Research articles 2008-10-22
- Deflation and the International Great Depression: A Productivity Puzzle
- This paper presents a dynamic, stochastic general equilibrium study of the causes of the international 'Great Depression'. It uses a fully articulated model to assess the relative contributions of deflation/monetary shocks, which are the most commonly, cited shocks for the Depression, and productivity shocks. It finds that productivity is the...
- White papers 2005-03-01
- Seasonal accommodation and the financial crises of the Great Depression: did the Fed "furnish an elastic currency?"
- Beginning with the stock market crash in October 1929, the United States suffered a series of financial crises that mark the Great Depression. In each crisis, the number of bank failures and the declines in bank reserves, the money stock and econom Beginning with...
- Research articles 1992-11-01
- Is the Current Crisis Really as Bad as the Great Depression?
- Mark J. Perry submits: Nobel-prize winner and former chief economist of the World Bank, Joseph Stiglitz has warned that the current financial crisis will continue for at least another eighteen months and in many ways represents a worse situation than the one faced by Americans during the Great Depression...
- External links 2008-09-18
- Monetary Explanations of the Great Depression: A Selective Survey of Empirical Evidence
- The Great Depression (1929-33) was the most severe economic contraction in the United States during the twentieth century (see Figures 1-3). During the contraction industrial production fell nearly 50 percent from its prior peak. The unemployment rate reached 24 percent in 1933: About one in four people in the workforce...
- Research articles 2004-07-01
- The Great Depression, redux? It's time the FCC took steps to get the economy back on its feet
- The telecommunications-information industry is suffering from its first Great Depression. Previous recessions are nothing compared to this -- and there is no resurgence in sight until perhaps late this year or in 2003. A "Great Depression" now is ironic: Most countries crave and lack universal telecom-information infrastructures, and there...
- Research articles 2002-02-01
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