fivethirtyeight.com - 3/4/2009
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Harvard economist Robert Barro's article in the Wall Street Journal about the relationship between stock market crashes and depressions is just ... plain ... weird. The bottom line is that there is ample reason to worry about slipping into a depression. There is a roughly one-in-five chance ...
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Murdoch’s Paper
Oliver Willis —
... So, sketchy nonsensical work masquerading as economic research? Check. The Wall Street Journal joins the other Murdoch papers around the world filled with excrement. ...
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Conservative Harvard economist William Barro glimpses disaster ahead: There is a roughly one-in-five chance that U.S. GDP and consumption will fall by 10% or more, something not seen since the early 1930s. Nate Silver is puzzled by the research. ...
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