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Another prediction of a sort to be found.
Request on unemployment.
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==Other sources==
==Other sources==
There's an interesting analysis of the effects of the housing bubble [http://seekingalpha.com/article/239841-commercial-real-estate-where-is-all-the-distressed-property here], but I have difficulty to understand it at the moment... if anyone out there can, please go for it. [[User:Pestergaines|Pestergaines]] 09:43, 4 December 2010 (CST)
There's an interesting analysis of the effects of the housing bubble [http://seekingalpha.com/article/239841-commercial-real-estate-where-is-all-the-distressed-property here], but I have difficulty to understand it at the moment... if anyone out there can, please go for it. [[User:Pestergaines|Pestergaines]] 09:43, 4 December 2010 (CST)
Added a [[Great Recession#Recovery of unemployment]] section, with some data on how new jobs look like, could use some data on how big the unemployment actually is. Any takers? [[User:Pestergaines|Pestergaines]] 05:19, 2 February 2011 (CST)


==On predictions==
==On predictions==

Revision as of 11:19, 2 February 2011

Other sources

There's an interesting analysis of the effects of the housing bubble here, but I have difficulty to understand it at the moment... if anyone out there can, please go for it. Pestergaines 09:43, 4 December 2010 (CST)

Added a Great Recession#Recovery of unemployment section, with some data on how new jobs look like, could use some data on how big the unemployment actually is. Any takers? Pestergaines 05:19, 2 February 2011 (CST)

On predictions

Walter Block has put together a large list of Austrians Who Predicted the Housing Bubble. A whole page could be made out of them! Pestergaines 08:51, 15 December 2010 (CST)

Paul Krugman said in 2005 (unofficial resource) that Paul McCulley, an economist at Pimco, the giant bond fund, predicted in 2001 that the Federal Reserve would simply replace one bubble with another. "There is room," he wrote, "for the Fed to create a bubble in housing prices". Pestergaines 13:46, 5 January 2011 (CST)