The Gathering Storm

Alarm about the state of the economy and the risk of outright recession next year continues to mount....November 25, former Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers -- a more astute or experienced observer would be hard to find -- raised eyebrows when he seemed to put the chances of recession at better than 50-50, even assuming that policy is changed to address the danger...If housing-market distress mounts over the next few months, as seems certain, and if ... Full Story »

Posted by Beth Wellington
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Subjects: U.S., Business
Topics: U.S. Economy
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Posted by: Posted by Beth Wellington - Nov 30, 2007 - 12:20 PM PST
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Edited by: Beth Wellington - Mar 17, 2008 - 3:26 PM PDT

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Kevin Reilly
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by Kevin Reilly - Oct. 1, 2008

No nonsense summary of the current domestic financial morass. I found it refreshingly non-partisan, given it's source. Frequently articles of this type contain so much data and statistics that a reader can either choose to accept these as fact or skim over them. This piece is more of an overview and interested readers can flesh out the details with data from any number of sources.

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