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Causes of the Financial Crisis and the Slow Recovery: A Ten-Year Perspective

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This paper examines the causes of the financial crisis and the relatively slow economic recovery since then. It expands the timeline to the five years before and after the financial crisis in order to get a more complete assessment of what went wrong and how government policy largely caused the crisis.

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  • John B. Taylor, 2014. "Causes of the Financial Crisis and the Slow Recovery: A Ten-Year Perspective," Economics Working Papers 14102, Hoover Institution, Stanford University.
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