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Wednesday, December 31st, 2008
Time to Banish Faith Based Economics
Remember the mean, lean years of 1982 and 1983? Unemployment hit 11% in November 1982 and remained at or above 10% for most of 1983.
In fiscal year 1983, the federal government budget deficit of 209 billion dollars was 6 per cent of GDP. The sky did not fall.
Today’s GDP is close to 14 [...]
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Thursday, December 11th, 2008
Depression Blogging Next Week
I’ve been invited back to TPM Cafe Book Club.
The topic is Paul Krugman’s newest book, The Return of Depression Economics and the Crisis of 2008.
This is a round table discussion with lots of opportunity for comments.
Hope all of the feminist readers out there will pay attention. Because so far Randy Albelda is spot on in [...]