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Showing posts with label Paul Krugman. Show all posts
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Tuesday, June 29, 2010

Nobel Prize Economist Sees US in Third Great Depression


From MoneyNews.com
By Gene Koprowski

The U.S. economy is in the “early stages” of a depression, one which will be much more severe than the Great Depression, Nobel Prize winning economist Paul Krugman warns.

“We are now, I fear, in the early stages of a third depression. It will probably look more like the Long Depression than the much more severe Great Depression,” Krugman writes in the New York Times.

“But the cost — to the world economy and, above all, to the millions of lives blighted by the absence of jobs — will nonetheless be immense,” he wrote in the Times.


This third depression will emerge as a result of the failure of government economic policy.


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