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The 1937-1938 Recession
With the economy wobbling around along a slow recovery path, a lot of commentators (Paul Krugman here and here, John Taylor here and Christina Romer here) have made connections to 1937/38 – the so-called “recession within the depression.” Economic historians have written a fair amount about that recession for some time and I thought it […]
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The Slow Recovery from the 1890s Recession
As the tepid economic recovery continues, there has been a fair amount of discussion about the uniqueness of the duration of above-normal unemployment following financial crises. Reinhart and Rogoff were clear on this in This Time is Different and in this article, where they write: “After the Fall,” a 2010 paper written by one of […]