Bubbles, Boom, & Bust

The Great Depression and the current recession may have some common causes. It is your task to tease out any similarities that you can glean from your study of the period (this means you have to have read about it... probably several times) along with the information from the article/links below. Good luck.

MUST READ: http://www.publicintegrity.org/investigations/economic_meltdown/

SUGGESTED READING:

http://money.cnn.com/2009/03/25/news/economy/depression_comparisons/index.htm

http://financeprofessorblog.blogspot.com/2009/05/james-surowiecki-on-boom-and-on-banks.html

http://www.dollarsandsense.org/blog/2009/02/great-real-estate-bubble-of-roaring.html

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