Friday, March 28, 2008

US recession more severe than last three

Martin Feldstein is a Professor of Economics at Harvard University and was one of the contenders for the FOMC or the Fed Chairmanship with Ben Bernanke. He is a widely respected economist and is important now because he believes that US is probably already under recession.

Feldstein said this is a very different recession from the last three recessions, which is the number of recessions we have had over the past quarter century plus, since 1980. “This recession was not created by the Federal Reserve as a way of damping inflation but grew out of the problems in the housing sector and credit markets. Those are not going to be easy to resolve.”

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