An Odd Couple
All that summer of 2008, decision-makers in Washington, D.C., were hoping for a soft landing – or so they said at the time. That was, after all, what happened in 1998, after the Russian debt crisis; or...
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If the first half of the nineteenth century in Britain was dominated by the Napoleonic wars and their aftershocks – strikes, demonstrations, suffrage demands – the nation settled down after 1850 to the...
View ArticleThe Next Thirty Years
So much for the first two depressions, the one that happened in the twentieth century, and the other that didn’t happen in the twenty-first. What about that third depression? The presumptive one that...
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