Recession
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First, the US is experiencing its worst housing
recession
since the Great Depression, and the slump is not over.
Given these staggering sums, the US could face a double-dip, W-shaped
recession.
Still, given a severe financial crisis, declining home prices, and a credit crunch, the US is facing its longest and deepest
recession
in decades, dashing any hope of a soft landing for the rest of the world.
While a global
recession
will be averted, a severe growth slowdown will not.
Many European economies are already slowing, with some entering
recession.
Still others, like the Fed’s current leader, Janet Yellen, suggest that investment and interest rates are depressed as a result of the damage done to the economy and the labor force during the Great
Recession.
The coming
recession
may stem their growth temporarily, but only slightly.
Others, however, have noted that Estonia pursued strict austerity in the wake of the crisis, avoided a financial crisis, and is now growing again vigorously, whereas Greece, which delayed its fiscal adjustment for too long, experienced a deep crisis and remains mired in
recession.
Why is it proving to be so hard to restore pre-Great
Recession
growth rates?
The eurozone faces the specter of another round of stagnation;Japan has slipped into recession; and the United States, despite relatively strong performance in the latter part of 2014, has raised concerns worldwide with its exit from quantitative easing.
Its post-2008 recovery has slowed, and some observers fear that Europe’s financial problems could tip the American and world economy into a second
recession.
The paradigm of Venezuela’s chavismo blamed inflation and
recession
on devious business behavior that had to be controlled through more regulation, more expropriations, and more managers in jail.
Even during the
recession
of 2001, those assembled in Davos believed that the downturn would be short-lived.
The story goes back to the
recession
of 2001.
With the support of Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan, President George W. Bush pushed through a tax cut designed to benefit the richest Americans but not to lift the economy out of the
recession
that followed the collapse of the Internet bubble.
But, given that overinvestment in the 1990’s was part of the problem underpinning the recession, lower interest rates did not stimulate much investment.
With the after-effects of the financial crisis fading, and AI perhaps starting to gain traction, trend US output growth can easily stay strong for the next several years (though, of course, a
recession
is also possible).
Likewise, following the 2008 global economic crisis, food-price spikes and
recession
caused the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization to revise its hunger estimates upward, to more than one billion people.
In 2009, as trade collapsed and unemployment rose dramatically, the world came together for the first time in the G-20 to prevent a great
recession
from spiraling into a great depression.
The 1997 Asian financial crisis followed a sudden stop of capital inflows to Asia, and global short-term lending suddenly dried up after Lehman Brothers collapsed in September 2008, causing the Great
Recession.
Global Disaster RecoveryPALO ALTO – With the global economy mired in
recession
and financial crisis, policymakers everywhere have launched a series of monetary, financial, and fiscal responses.
The bottom line, though, is that better policies can at best mitigate the economic consequences of this horrible
recession.
We are facing many crises – food, energy, recession, and pandemic flu – occurring all at once.
As a result, Europe emerged from the
recession
with too many zombie banks, wounded households, and struggling companies.
And yet Donald Trump’s approval rating is well below 40%, as one would expect to see during a
recession.
At that time, the US was in a deep recession, owing to the Federal Reserve’s tough disinflation policy, which Reagan had supported.
Argentina is now in a deep recession, with unemployment above 30%, and a shattered banking and financial system.
At a time of deep recession, such support should not be made contingent on reaching unattainable fiscal objectives.
Indeed, Europe is one shock away from outright deflation and another bout of
recession.
Of the five BRICS economies (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa), three (Brazil, Russia, and South Africa) are close to
recession.
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