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Daily Archive for February 11th, 2009

Useful Reminder from Roberto

By the way, although WWII raised U.S. real GDP a lot, this response is not typical for the OECD. If fact, WWII is the biggest economic disaster of the 20th century, out-stripping the Great Depression. This is, of course, because many countries suffered greatly from physical destruction and loss of life (the U.K. not nearly […]

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So now we have the Geithner rescue plan (some of this overlaps with Congressional Bailout #1, and is for an open-ended amount, perhaps in the trillions), we have the Federal stimulus plan (apx $800B), we had the Congressional bailout plan in the fall ($700 billion), we had the Fed rescue of Bear Stearns ($30 billion), […]

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