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For twenty-two years we have peered into a crystal ball trying to discern our economic future. In retrospect, if we could have picked another time to forecast, it would have been from 1970 to 2000 when the economy behaved...well...more predictably. [READ MORE]

When a driver taps the brakes, the car slows down but remains under control. The workings of an economy are not so simple. If the economy decelerates in response to an oil price shock, for example, the slowdown may trigger a reaction that further impedes its progress. [READ MORE]