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A Political End of the Recession?

A Political End of the Recession?
Mises Wire Mike Ewens
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Was NBER’s announcement that the recession ended in ‘01 poltically motivated?  An ArgMax reader suspects this may be the case:

 ”...the political question should be raised since . . . Martin Feldstein, the head of the NBER and a member of the dating committee, was at the Whitehouse meeting with G. Bush the day before the committee released the announcement.”

 

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