Weekly Roundup of Recession Articles

Forbes
His policies have both raised the risks of a new global recession while seriously weakening the government’s ability to deal with it when it comes.

TheStreet.com
In a recession, we would see back-to-back quarters where the growth rate is actually negative – the economy actually contracts. It shrinks. Maybe we’d …

Project Syndicate
The response to the 2008 economic crisis has relied far too much on monetary stimulus, in the form of quantitative easing and near-zero (or even …

The Guardian
As bad as a slowdown in exports to China would be for many countries, a significant rise in global interest rates would be much worse. Eurozone …

Forbes
One of the leading indicators foreshadowing the next recession is a break in market correlations. Correlations are inherently unstable and when …

MarketWatch
The Justice Department said it’s suing UBS UBS, -2.01% over the sale of residential mortgage-backed securities from 2006 through 2007, just before …

Forbes
Well, if we look at the last time around for a recession — in that 2006 to 2010 period — one of the best performing assets involved a well-known …

RTE.ie
A new study which looked at the lives of nine-year-olds shows poorer outcomes for children from lower socio-economic backgrounds. The Growing Up …

The Boston Globe
When China finally has its inevitable growth recession — which will almost surely be amplified by a financial crisis, given the economy’s massive …

MarketWatch
‘The next crisis is not likely to be another Lehman, but another Japan — a widespread zombification of global economies to avoid the pain of a large …