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Semantic analysis: Anger management | The Economist

Monday, May 23rd, 2011

ON SEPTEMBER 11th, 2001, Americans' feelings of shock and sadness in the wake of the atrocity that befell New York seemed to turn increasingly into anger . Last year boffins from Johannes Gutenberg University in Germany …

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Semantic analysis: Anger management | The Economist

American public opinion: Depression era Americans were optimistic …

Thursday, December 16th, 2010

[D]espite their far higher and longer-lasting record of unemployment, Depression -era Americans remained hopeful for the future. About half (50%) expected general business conditions to improve over the next six months, while only 29% …

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Comparing Great Depression with the Great Recession — lessons so …

Monday, October 4th, 2010

To take the obvious example, in light of recent events, I have had to revise everything I say about the Great Depression . This is the case with regard to the causes of the 1929 crisis, which included the Florida real estate bubble, …

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Did France cause the Great Depression? « Mostly Economics

Friday, September 24th, 2010

A large body of research has linked the gold standard to the severity of the Great Depression . This column argues that while economic historians have focused on the role of tightened US monetary policy, not enough attention has been …

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Comparing 1938 Depression with 2010 « Mostly Economics

Wednesday, September 8th, 2010

Within a few years, of course, the Great Depression was over. But it’s both instructive and discouraging to look at the state of America circa 1938 — instructive because the nature of the recovery that followed refutes the arguments …

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Stimulus: The depression that might have been | The Economist

Wednesday, July 28th, 2010

The depression that might have been. Jul 28th 2010, 13:34 by R.A. | WASHINGTON.

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2010 the Year of Anger Management? | David Shankbone

Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010

2010 the Year of Anger Management ? By David Shankbone

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Great Depression Analogy « Mostly Economics

Monday, December 21st, 2009

Michael Bordo and Harold James have written a super paper comparing Great depression with this crisis. Though there have been many papers on this track, anything extra from Bordo and James is always welcome.

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