GREAT RECESSION
December 2015
At the height of the 2008 banking crisis, Mervyn King backed the wrong plan, which triggered a vicious deflationary shock in the UK
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March 2015
"The boom in the output of the financial sector was a boom in productivity. This has been stopped in its tracks by bureaucracy and regulation."
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March 2015
The FT's chief economics commentator debates Standpoint's columnist Tim Congdon on the Great Recession, austerity, and the proper use of fiscal policy
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