rdan (Re-printed with permission from the author, James Taylor, and David Zetland from The Great Recession Conspiracy)…

by cactus The Greenspan Fed, the 2000 Election, and the 2001 Recession In the past, I’ve had a few posts on the Greenspan era Fed. I’ve noted that some of…

…US has experienced only two minor recession. It appears that the US has shifted from having a recession roughly every 4 years to one every 10 years, or even less…

…budget deficits even after the moves towards fiscal responsibility from the first President Bush. And while we were slowly recovering from the recession during Bush41’s term of office, the labor…

…recession, and he immediately (but too late) had to reverse course and lower interest rates. 1991-93: Greenspan tried to help end the recession by reducing interest rates. He lowered them…

…detail. Leading up to the Recession of 1974 Leading up to the Recession of 1980 Leading up to the Recession of 1991 The almost Recession of 1994 and the Recession…

…Recession. See David Beckworth here. I’m not here to defend the Fed, but there are two issues. The first issue is their behavior – and if they mistook 2008 for…

…the same way, we find a recession disgusting. It is not that we are afraid of recessions, but rather trained to see them as unnatural and socially unacceptable. So when…

Via Economist’s View comes this note on ‘Unemployment Insurance and Disability Insurance in the Great Recession’ From the NBER Digest: The authors find very little interaction between UI benefit eligibility…

…see more wage inflation and lower unemployment. Yet, a recession will eventually bring this moment to an end. The longer the recession can be avoided, the better it is for…