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- From: rja@redwood26.cray.com (Russ Anderson)
- Newsgroups: sci.econ,talk.politics.misc
- Subject: Re: recessions (was: Question about Clinton's "didn't inhale" remark)
- Message-ID: <1992Jul21.171412.7494@hemlock.cray.com>
- Date: 21 Jul 92 22:14:12 GMT
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- In article <1992Jul21.124423.16866@iti.org>, aws@iti.org (Allen W. Sherzer) writes:
- > In article <1992Jul20.173527.19026@Princeton.EDU> pswanson@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Paul Swanson) writes:
- >
- > >>>Correct me if I'm wrong... aren't we ALREADY in the biggest
- > >>>recession since the 1930's?
- >
- > >>consider yourself corrected. The recession in the middle 70's and the
- >
- > >Gee, isn't this shortly after the first oil crisis?
- >
- > I believe it started a tad before the Arab embargo.
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- It should be noted that there was a rapid increase in the money supply
- (due to action by the Federal reserve) leading to an increase in inflation
- (1971-73), before the first oil crisis (1973).
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- > >>one in the early 80's where each far worse. This one is actually pretty
- >
- > >And this one was right after the second oil crisis. Think there is some
- > >sort of correlation here? I certainly do.
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- It should be noted that there was a rapid increase in the money supply
- (due to action by the Federal reserve) leading to an increase in inflation
- (1977-79), before the second oil crisis.
-
- It should be noted that there was a decrease in the growth of the money supply
- (due to action by the Federal reserve) leading to an slow down in inflation
- (1979-85), before the oil price crash (1985).
-
- The point is that inflation (the dollar declining in value) leads to oil
- price increases (OPECers raising the price in nominal dollars to reflect the
- declining purchasing power). Of course politically it is better to blame
- OPEC than the president/Fed's own mismanagement of the money supply for
- the increasing oil prices.
-
- > What's your point? The most recent recession (which now seems to be over)
- > was triggered by the invasion of Kuwait and the accompying oil crisis.
-
- The Kuwait "oil crisis" was not in the same league as the first two.
- Prices, after taxes, quickly returned to their pre-crisis levels.
-
- > >>mild, it just seems worse compared to the previous decade of growth.
- >
- > >What about the length of this recession? Is it longer or shorter than
- > >the two that were pointed out by the previous poster?
- >
- > Assuming this recession is over (since the economy is growing again that
- > seems a good assumption) then it will have been shorter than the previous
- > recessions as well.
-
- I don't think so. I'll look it up.
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