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Wednesday, April 2, 2008 12:00 AM

The Great Depression: The sequel

Is it coming to a soup kitchen near you? Here's how we'll know if the current recession is turning into something much worse.

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  • Wednesday, April 2, 2008 09:20 AM

    Inflation here in simple-minded angry political posters

    Andrew Leonard writes good, advanced, nuanced stuff every day, about economics, in his blog "How the World Works." This article is a little more general, a little more sensational than usual, but it deserves better responses than some of this knee-jerk rant.

    This is a forum for coming up with new approaches. Please think and advance the discussion. Do not just replay all the conventional wisdom that has led us to this economic brink.

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