Saturday, February 21, 2009

Paul Volcker: Crisis May be Even Worse than Great Depression


Former Fed Chairman Paul Volcker has said what many others in the know are saying: this crisis could be even worse than the Great Depression.

As quoted by CNBC:

The global economy may be deteriorating even faster than it did during the Great Depression, Paul Volcker, a top adviser to President Barack Obama, said on Friday.

Volcker noted that industrial production around the world was declining even more rapidly than in the United States, which is itself under severe strain.

"I don't remember any time, maybe even in the Great Depression, when things went down quite so fast, quite so uniformly around the world,'' Volcker told a luncheon of economists and investors at Columbia University.

Many other prominent economists and financial analysts say that this could be worse than the Great Depression. See this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this and this

And honest experts admit that we are already in a depression.


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1 comment:

  1. EQFebruary 22, 2009 at 12:56 PM

    They all are conveniently skipping over the fact that he ALSO said that he is worried that the central banks, treasuries and regulatory agencies are assuming too much power while trying to fix the problem. Consolidation of power is the name of the game. Why do you think there is a drumbeat in the corporate media to nationalize the banks?

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