Tag: Recession

Calculated Risk compares job losses of recession to Great Depression

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We don’t have good data from the Great Depression, but the U.S. probably lost more than 15% of its civilian jobs from 1929 to about 1932. The jobs recovery was pretty quick from there, but then jobs were lost again…

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How much would Georgia be hurt by a European recession?

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It now seems almost a given that, even if the U.S. technically avoids a recession, we’ll be hurt by the slowdown in Europe related to the continent’s debt crisis. That crisis is nowhere near over. From Calculated Risk yesterday, State…

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