Over five years ago we suffered the worst recession since the great depression almost 100 years ago. Since then our economic recovery has been the weakest of all recoveries as well. There are many reasons for the weak recoveries. The fact that our real estate market was devastated and needed years to recover was certainly a main factor. But there were other reasons for the stops and starts which were external. We had domestic and world-wide natural disasters from hurricanes and super storms to tsunamis. We will not get into a debate as to whether global warming is causing these (1 comments)
recession: Europe Rises From Recession
- 08/30/13 03:34 AM
Many have wondered why interest rates have risen so sharply this year without the economy showing significant enough strength to heat up inflationary pressures. Yes, the threat of the Federal Reserve decreasing stimulus by lowering their purchases of Treasuries and Mortgage Backed Securities hovers over the markets. Yet, the Fed would not be considering lessening stimulus if they were not more confident about the economy. One must remember that these extraordinary measures were put in place to keep us out of a second recession as the world-wide economy was slowing while we were struggling to come back from our deep recession. (0 comments)