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Barry Eichengreen
American
Economist
Born:
1952
Collapse
Depression
Europe
Great
Political
Zone
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The 24% unemployment reached at the depths of the Great Depression was no picnic.
Barry Eichengreen
Depression
Great
Great Depression
Picnic
Reached
Unemployment
Depths
Across the continent, political divisions are deepening. For all of these reasons, the specter of a euro zone collapse has not been dispatched.
Barry Eichengreen
Political
Collapse
Divisions
Continent
Been
Across
Euro
Reasons
Deepening
Specter
Zone
The consequences of a collapse would not be pretty. Whichever country precipitated it - Germany by threatening to abandon the euro, or Greece or Spain by actually doing so - would trigger economic chaos and incur its neighbours' wrath.
Barry Eichengreen
Country
Consequences
Chaos
Collapse
Abandon
Neighbours
Would
Trigger
Threatening
Wrath
Pretty
Economic
Doing
Greece
Germany
Spain
Euro
Actually
Every day it seems more likely that we are destined - or should one say doomed? - to replay the disastrous economic history of the 1930s.
Barry Eichengreen
Day
History
Every Day
Every
Say
Destined
Seems
More
Economic
Disastrous
Likely
Replay
Doomed
Should
The 1992 crisis proved that the existing system was unstable. Not moving forward to the euro would have set up Europe for even more disruptive crises.
Barry Eichengreen
Moving Forward
Crises
Crisis
System
Would
More
Unstable
Proved
Existing
Up
Moving
Euro
Europe
Forward
Even
Disruptive
Set
This crisis of long-term unemployment is having a profoundly damaging impact on the lives of those bearing the brunt of it. We know this thanks to a series of careful studies of the problem conducted in the depths of the 1930s Great Depression.
Barry Eichengreen
Depression
Great
Problem
Thanks
Great Depression
Those
Crisis
Impact
Having
Brunt
Bearing
Studies
Long-Term
Know
Unemployment
Depths
Series
Lives
Profoundly
Damaging
Careful
Why was there so much work-sharing in the 1930s? One reason is that government pushed for it. In his memoirs, President Herbert Hoover estimated that as many as two million workers avoided unemployment as a result of his efforts to promote work-sharing.
Barry Eichengreen
Government
Result
President
Hoover
Memoirs
Promote
Pushed
His
Unemployment
Efforts
Estimated
Much
Workers
Avoided
Reason
Many
Why
Herbert
Million
Herbert Hoover
Two
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