The economists are meeting in Boston next week, and Economic Principals has been getting ready for them, chiefly reading Barry Eichengreen’s Hall of Mirrors: The Great Depression, the Great Recession, and the Uses – and Misuses – of History (Oxford, 2015).

It’s in the nature of this business that holidays throw a special wrench into the works, So, reluctantly, EP is not writing this week.  Look for the Eichengreen piece in two weeks, after next week’s timely report.

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