Outside the Box

Was what happened to the U. S. economy from 2003 to 2007 a run on the dollar? That’s certainly a different way of looking at things.

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  • steve Link

    1) The same thing happened elsewhere in the world w/o currency devaluation.

    2) There had been other attempts at a subprime run up in the 90s. They were stopped by regulators. (See Bill Black)

    3) Interest rates being held down so low for so long probably were a factor, just not the only one.

    Steve

  • Ben Wolf Link

    I’m sorry, but other than a credit boom nothing of any particular note happened in the U.S. economy. FYI demand for credit is demand for a larger money supply. Hard to argue no one trusted the dollar in the face of that.

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