Apologies: too Optimistic about US Recession


	Apologies: too Optimistic about US Recession

abailart

3-22-2008 5:40 AM

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economics, economic depression, hedges, futures, deriratives

abailart says:

Ho hum.

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                              by 15% nationwide, peak to trough. On March 11, 
                              2007, this column suggested that the total bad 
                              debt loss from the mortgage crisis would be about 
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                              Enterprise Institute Wednesday, it became clear 
                              that in both cases I was not pessimistic enough. 
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                              large enough to wipe out the banking system, and 
                              the interconnected network caused by modern 
                              finance is sufficiently fragile that the failure 
                              of any one major house, if carried out through 
                              normal bankruptcy processes, would be sufficient 
                              to bring down the world economy as a whole. 
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