List of Great Recession articles
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PORNCHAI KITTIWONGSAKUL/AFP/Getty Images The Coming Financial Pandemic
The U.S. financial crisis cannot be contained. Indeed, it has already begun to infect other countries, and it will travel further before it's done. From sluggish trade to credit crunches, from housing busts to volatile stock markets, this is how the contagion will spread.
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Boomtowns
The housing bubble may have burst in the United States and Western Europe. But, in cities around the world, irrational exuberance in the residential market lives on.
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Reasons to Be Bullish?
Economists Daniel Rosen and Tim Duy, and global investment strategist Jack Dzierwa, challenge Nouriel Roubini's gloomy prediction of "The Coming Financial Pandemic."
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After the Fall
What the lessons of 9/11 could teach the world about the financial crisis.
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An Intellectual Bailout
We must add another field to the list of those in need of rescuing -- economics itself.
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The Poor Man’s Burden
Eighty years ago, a depression changed the way we think about poverty. It took decades for the world to recover and to remember that if people are given freedom, they will prosper. Now, in the wake of another massive meltdown, the fear that shocked us into depending on government to fix poverty is spreading once again -- and threatening to undo many of the gains we've made.
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Watch the Dollar
"If housing prices fall back in line with the overall rate price level... it will eliminate more than $2 trillion in paper wealth and considerably worsen the recession. The collapse of the housing bubble will also jeopardize the survival of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac." -- Dean Baker, September 2002
