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Comparing Unemployment During the Great Depression and the Great Recession
by William K. Black, New Economic Perspectives Barry Eichengreen’s and Tim Hatton’s January 1988 paper entitled “Interwar Unemployment in International Perspective” is a useful starting point for any effort to compare unemployment during the Great Depression and the Great Recession. … Continue reading
Posted in Economics, Employment, Eurozone, UK, macroeconomics, money
Tagged Economy, employment, Federal Reserve, Great Depression, recession, recovery, unemployment, William K. Black
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Why Financial Repression Will Fail
The author – Ron Hera – argues that the financial repression will fail eventually. Financial repression occurs when governments channel funds into their own sovereign bonds in order to reduce debt levels through mechanisms such as directed lending, caps on interest rates, capital controls, debt monetization, or by other means. To establish his points, Mr. Hera catches readers’ attention towards “The Liquidation of Government Debt”, “Crisis and Consequence” and many other facts. Continue reading
Posted in Business News and Analysis, Eurozone
Tagged capital controls, Carmen M. Reinhart, Central banks, debt crisis, Debt monetization, Economy, Eurozone, Federal Reserve, financial repression, Great Depression, inflation, recession, recovery, ron hera, stock market, weekly economic review
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Dealing with the Global Financial Crisis: Focus Europe
Where are the Super Heroes? Written by Macrotides In our article in March we discussed the low level of volatility in the stock market, and wondered if the perception that the European debt crisis was contained was correct. We didn’t … Continue reading
Posted in Eurozone, macroeconomics
Tagged austerity, EU, Euro bonds, Europe, Europe recession, Eurozone, Francoise Hollande, Global macroeconomy, Great Depression, macrotides
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The Coming Depression in Spain: 22 Reasons Why
by The Economic Collapse What happens when debt-fueled false prosperity disappears? Just look at Spain. The 4th largest economy in the eurozone was riding high during the boom years, but now the Spanish economy is collapsing with no end in … Continue reading
Posted in Eurozone
Tagged Great Depression, Spain, Spain depression, Spain GDP, Spain unemployment, The Economic Collapse
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Keynes: “Banks and Bankers are by Nature Blind.”
by Guest Author James K. Galbraith, bio end of article Editor’s note: This was published previously at Alternet.org Nov. 11, 2011, with the title: John Maynard Keynes Knew What Occupy Wall Street Tells Us Today: “Banks and bankers are by … Continue reading
The Global Financial Crisis Is Not Behind Us
The fundamental cause of the Global Financial Crisis was the excessive level of private debt. The deleveraging has been slowed to some degree by government action, but the need for that deleveraging has not been removed. A majority of the 16 individuals identified in Bezemer (2009) and (Fullbrook (2010)) as having anticipated the Global Financial Crisis followed non-mainstream approaches to economics, with most of them identifying as Post-Keynesian (Dean Baker, Wynne Godley, Michael Hudson, Steve Keen, Ann Pettifor) or Austrian (Kurt Richelbacher, Peter Schiff). The theoretical foundations of these authors therefore differ substantially from those of more mainstream neoclassical economists. This paper focuses on the Post-Keynesian subset, hereinafter referred to as the Bezemer-Fullbrook Group. Continue reading
Did France Cause the Great Depression?
Both the U.S. and France started the deflationary ball rolling but by 1932 it was only France affecting money supply by hoarding gold. Continue reading
Posted in Federal Reserve, Studies
Tagged Douglas Irwin, France, gold, Great Depression, U.S.
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Is This your Grandfather’s Mortgage Crisis?
There are important parallels between the housing and mortgage markets in the 1920s and 1930s with the 1990s and 2000s. Continue reading
