Today, on the Ed Morrissey Show (3 pm ET), we welcome John Taylor of the Hoover Institution and Stanford University to discuss his new book, Getting Off Track: How Government Actions and Interventions Caused, Prolonged, and Worsened the Financial Crisis...
There’s a one-in-five chance of a minor depression (an economic contraction of 10-25 percent) and a 2 percent chance of a major depression (25 percent, like in the 1930’s), the economist Robert J. Barro figures...
Predictions of a recovery are a dime a dozen these days, but a Harvard researcher who has closely examined economies around the world back to the time of Lincoln has this sobering viewpoint: There’s a decent chance we’re in for a real, out-and-out depression...
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