Category Archives: Depression

Is Inflation Starting to Hit America?

By Gerard Francis Lameiro | Published: August 24, 2010
It seems as if inflation has been relatively tame these last few years.  However, with increased big government spending come mounting deficits and unsustainable debt levels.  One way to deal with reckless spending, large deficits, and high debt is to monetize those problems with inflation.  New big government programs with massive new regulations, mandates, costs, [...]
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Should Jobless Benefits Be Extended for the Eighth Time?

By Gerard Francis Lameiro | Published: July 19, 2010
An editorial in The Wall Street Journal this week discusses the proposal to extend jobless benefits for the eighth time since the recession started.  This extension would mean the unemployed can collect benefits for up to 99 weeks, nearly two years.  Is this a good idea from an economics point of view?  Is this compassion?  Or, are [...]
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Low Interest Rates – Who Wins? Who Loses?

By Gerard Francis Lameiro | Published: July 5, 2010
In The Wall Street Journal this week, an op-ed piece deals with the Federal Reserve’s policy of near-zero interest rates, presumably to help our very anemic and faltering economic recovery.  Are we really in an economic recovery?  Or, are we on the edge of a double-dip recession?  Or worse yet, are we entering a depression [...]
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Are We Entering a Depression?

By Gerard Francis Lameiro | Published: June 28, 2010
Economist Paul Krugman in an op-ed column in The New York Times online edition indicates that he is fearful that we are now in the early stages of a depression, possibly the third depression in our history.  Krugman also appears to believe that the cause will be government policy mistakes.  Specifically, he sees the need for [...]
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