Sunday, July 17, 2011

The Great Consumer Bust

David Leonhardt, New York Times
THERE is no shortage of explanations for the economy’s maddening inability to leave behind the Great Recession and start adding large numbers of jobs: The deficit is too big. The stimulus was flawed. China is overtaking us. Businesses are overregulated. Wall Street is underregulated. But the real culprit — or at least the main one — has been hiding in plain sight. We are living through a tremendous bust. It isn’t simply a housing bust. It’s a fizzling of the great consumer bubble that was decades in the making. The auto...

Source: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2011/07/17/the_great_consumer_bust_259502.html

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