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Relief, Recovery, Reform: A Retrospective on the US Policy Responses to the Great Recession

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  • Basak Kus

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The Great Recession presented the US with economic and political challenges that had not been experienced since the time of the Great Depression. This article provides a retrospective on the government’s response to the crisis ten years after the enactment of the Dodd-Frank Act, as the country is heading into its next presidential election in the midst of yet another downturn, this time fueled by the COVID-19 pandemic.

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  • Basak Kus, 2020. "Relief, Recovery, Reform: A Retrospective on the US Policy Responses to the Great Recession," Intereconomics: Review of European Economic Policy, Springer;ZBW - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics;Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS), vol. 55(4), pages 257-265, July.
  • Handle: RePEc:spr:intere:v:55:y:2020:i:4:d:10.1007_s10272-020-0910-4
    DOI: 10.1007/s10272-020-0910-4
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    1. Eichengreen, Barry, 2016. "Hall of Mirrors: The Great Depression, the Great Recession, and the Uses-and Misuses-of History," OUP Catalogue, Oxford University Press, number 9780190621070.
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