Author: Niall Ferguson
September 22, 2008
Financial Times contributing editor Niall Ferguson says the use of low interest rates and deficit finance may have been right during the Depression but are not appropriate for the current financial crisis. Reflecting on the comments of the two presidential candidates about the crisis, Ferguson writes the election will become "a contest between two brands of economic populism."
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