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The Motley Fool October 22, 2008 Morgan Housel	Another Stimulus Package? Say It Ain't So. Just months after millions of checks made their way into mailboxes, there's talk of yet another stimulus package.
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The Motley Fool March 30, 2010 Morgan Housel	Housing: 24 Hours From the Next Leg Down? In 24 hours, the Federal Reserve will stop buying mortgage-backed securities. When it does, there's a good chance the economy will shift in big ways.
Finance & Development June 2010 Linda Yueh	A Stronger China China can emerge from the crisis stronger if it increases domestic demand and promotes global integration.
Finance & Development December 2010	Stimulus Worked Without the quick and massive policy response, the Great Recession might still plague the United States.
The Motley Fool January 20, 2010 Jennifer Schonberger	The Catalyst for the Market's Next Decade Political reverberations will affect the markets for years to come.
Financial Advisor February 2009 Andrew Gluck	Fixing The Economic Crisis Martin Wolf, associate editor and chief economics commentator at the Financial Times, says the long-term solution to the current crisis involves Americans saving more, but the Chinese will need to spend more, too.
The Motley Fool February 15, 2007 Mike Norman	Balance the Budget and Unbalance the Economy From time to time the idea of a balanced budget amendment has been floated, but so far it has never come to pass. Thankfully. We need to fear a balanced budget more than deficits.
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On Wall Street October 1, 2009 Milton Ezrati	Asian Economies Regain Footing After Falling Off the Growth Path During the past year, emerging Asian economies have shown two tremendous sensitivities.
The Motley Fool November 26, 2008 Alex Dumortier	The $800 Billion Pick-Me-Up for Consumer Credit The central bank announces an $800 billion support package aimed at spurring mortgage lending and consumer credit, including car, credit card, and small business loans.
BusinessWeek February 24, 2011 Charlie Rose	Charlie Rose Talks to Nassim Taleb The Black Swan's author saw that spiraling risk in financial markets could spark a global crisis. Now he's warning of the risk in delaying deficit cuts
On Wall Street December 1, 2009 Milton Ezrati	Emerging Economies Are Even Better Than Advertised Not only have emerging markets resumed their place as leading engines of global growth, they have also followed monetary and fiscal policies that are much more prudent than those of the United States, Japan and most other developed nations.
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The Motley Fool April 20, 2009 Morgan Housel	Big Irony From a Big Bank JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon not only avoided the bulk of the financial disaster, but also spent years fortifying JPMorgan's balance sheet in case the Big One hit. But now, he makes one big hypocritical statement.
The Motley Fool January 12, 2012 Morgan Housel	Robert Shiller on the Need for More Stimulus In an exclusive recent interview, I asked Yale economist Robert Shiller about recessions, austerity, and stimulus.
The Motley Fool July 24, 2008 Morgan Housel	I.O.U.nited States Whether you like it or not, you have $31,300 of debt. Think about that for a second. Let it sink in. $31,300. It's the per-capita national debt in this country. The question is, how much longer can the debt party last?
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The Motley Fool April 14, 2010 Morgan Housel	Bailout Cost Plummets: Good News? It seems the bailouts taxpayers ponied up to save the financial system are going to cost a lot less than we thought.
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The Motley Fool October 16, 2008 Zoe Van Schyndel	The Risky Business of Securities Lending Is your mutual fund betting with your money?
Finance & Development September 2009 Francesco Giavazzi	Growth after the Crisis If the world economy is to recover, a replacement must be found for the newly frugal U.S. consumer.
BusinessWeek March 5, 2007 James C. Cooper	How Long Can The U.S. Count On Foreign Funding? As the dollar sags and other investments beckon, a shakeout looms.
The Motley Fool February 26, 2010 Morgan Housel	A National Debt Crisis? Think Again In the appropriate context, the national debt doesn't look so bad. We should really care about our debt's annual carrying cost, especially in relation to the size of our economy.
Reason January 2009 Jeffrey Rogers Hummel	The Fed's Binge How the Federal Reserve engineered the most dramatic peacetime experiment in monetary and fiscal stimulus in U.S. history without anyone noticing
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