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Recession

  • SOURCE: Foreign Policy
    8/27/2022

    Is Jerome Powell Following History to Fight Inflation?

    by Adam Tooze

    Jerome Powell has drawn history into his public rationale for raising interest rates, arguing that his Fed won't repeat the problems of inaction of the 1970s. Is he risking a recession by ignoring the different causes of inflation today? 

  • SOURCE: CityJ
    Winter 2013, Vol. 23. No. 1.

    Hail Columbia! The federal government’s relentless expansion has made Washington, D.C., America’s real Second City.

    The Washington, D.C., region has long been considered recession-proof, thanks to the remorseless expansion of the federal government in good times and bad. Yet it’s only now—as D.C. positively booms while most of the country remains in economic doldrums—that the scale of Washington’s prosperity is becoming clear. Over the past decade, the D.C. area has made stunning economic and demographic progress. Meanwhile, America’s current and former Second Cities, population-wise—Los Angeles and Chicago—are battered and fading in significance. Though Washington still isn’t their match in terms of population, it’s gaining on them in terms of economic power and national importance....