All Posts Tagged With: "economic downturn"
Barack Obama's Economic Plan: Clintonomics
Barack Obama will reportedly annouce his economic team today and it can’t come too soon. Uncertainty seems to be killing the already fragile market. Obama, at least in word, is quickly committing to a safe, pro-trade economic plan. He’s backing off his pledges to raise taxes and promoting an economic stimulus plan.
24Nov2008 | Mike Van Winkle | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Great Contraction, 1929–33
The recession that began in mid-1929 need not have become a disaster. Many downturns had occurred previously in U.S. economic history, and nearly all of them had been fairly shallow and soon followed by recovery and continued growth. In the nineteenth century most people had believed that the government neither knew how nor possessed the [...]
1Apr2007 | Robert Higgs | 0 comments | Continued-
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