The Great Depression analogy will not provide easy answers
By Harold James
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Monday, May 11, 2009
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Whenever today's economic crisis is discussed, analogies to the Great Depression are never far away. In its latest "World Economic Outlook," the International Monetary Fund examines the analogy explicitly, in terms not only of the collapse of financial confidence, but also of the rapid decline in global trade and industrial activity.
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