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How Long Will This Recession Last?

Leave a Comment / Recession / By Guest Contributor

The most important question for asset prices right now, from stocks to houses to Bitcoin, is whether we’re due for a recession. Last week we got confirmation that according to the traditional definition of a recession – 2 quarters of negative growth – we are already in a recession.
The response from this administration has been denial and word games rather than actually trying to stop the slide. At which point the betting shifts to whether it’ll be a shallow 1991-style recession or a big, 2008-style one, perhaps with a financial crisis to spice things up.

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Unintended Consequences of Well-Intended Policies

Economic Trends, Government, Recession / By Casey Research

By Dr. Lacy Hunt for Casey Research In the early 1960s, when JFK was in the White House and William McChesney Martin was Fed chairman, Keynesian economics was in full bloom. One of its major tenets is the Phillips Curve, which posits a stable inverse relationship between the rate of inflation and the unemployment rate.

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A Simplistic Look at Recession Ripples

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Recession Signs and Consequences The signs of an impending recession is a complicated combination of economic factors that include inflation, interest rates, lending, the value of the dollar, Government regulation and subsidies, corporate and personal liquidity, the stock market and unemployment figures. The consequences of the recession, on the other hand, are fairly simple. More companies and individuals are

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