ZitatAlles anzeigenMarch 17, 2008: 5:01 AM
How bad is the mortgage crisis going to get?
What started in subprime is likely to continue cascading into the markets and keep the economy down until 2010, economist Paul Krugman forecasts. Bottom line for homeowners: An average drop of 25%.
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I'm not one of those people who thinks the Great Depression is coming back, but there's lots of echoes.
Why not the Great Depression?
Because I think we know something that we didn't then. The Federal Reserve was clueless back then. They were only concerned about protecting the nation's gold reserves, and the federal government believed that austerity and cutting spending was the answer to recession. I think we know more than we did then, and just the fact that we have a big federal government is a stabilizing factor. But the current problem is still pretty awesome.
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http://money.cnn.com/2008/03/1…tm?postversion=2008031705
Na Gottseidank! Weils da drüben eh nix mehr an echten Assets zu verteidigen gibt, wie noch in den 30ern ("nations gold reserves"), wird die tiefe Krise diesmal auch viel besser überstanden werden. ...
Klingt sogar irgendwie plausibel, ist aber die offizielle Bestätigung der Zimbabwization ... .
Oder: Ist der Ruf erst ruiniert, lebt sichs völlig ungeniert ... .
(Bzw: Freedom is just another word, for nothing left to lose.)
Gruß, gutso