History of recessions contradicts Greenspan

ARTICLE - David Leonhardt, writing in the New York Times, says that Federal Reserve Board Governor, Alan Greenspan, is wrong to be optimistic about the prospects for the US economy.

The 17 members of the Federal Reserve Board's Open Market Committee are meeting this week in their second-floor boardroom in Washington, optimistic that the economy is on the verge of improving.

But history is not on their side.

For the past 30 years, each time payrolls in the United States have shrunk as much as they

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