This Sunday, New York Times Magazine is publishing a story titled: HEADING OFF THE NEXT FINANCIAL CRISIS (Hat tip Mike Allen at Politico). In the piece New York Times economics columnist David Leonhardt looks at the idea of preventing the next financial crisis, or at least making it less damaging. He includes a conversation he [...]
We think Geithner et al are wrong and that unemployment will decline substantially this year. Both theory and experience argue business investment not consumer spending is the essential driver of recovery. Now that most businesses of significant size can borrow again investments that have been postponed for almost two years now have to come soon.
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