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Apr262009

Oil price spikes and recessions

DateSunday, April 26, 2009 at 07:48AM

Professor James Hamilton documents that 10 of the last 11 US recessions have closely followed crude oil price spikes and discusses causation in this post, where he also links to work he has been doing on this subject since 1980.

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