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What Causes a Depression?

September 29, 2009 by · Leave a Comment 

The Daily Reckoning It is a gray morning here in London. We sit in the building with the golden balls, look out the window, and wonder… …how does it all work? We’re doing some serious thinking this week. What is it that actually causes a depression? A stock market collapse? Or too much debt? How [...]

There Will Be No Recovery

May 15, 2009 by · Leave a Comment 

All the glad-handing, back-slapping self-congratulatory accolades the Obama administration and Wall Street are heaping upon themselves in the press is scant comfort for the vast majority of citizens now unemployed and of no fixed address. For them, this economic crisis isn’t so much a temporary crisis as a permanent redistribution of wealth and living standards [...]