Quotes by Barry Eichengreen - Page 1

The 24% unemployment reached at the depths of the Great Depression was no picnic.
Barry Eichengreen / Economist
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Depth
Great Depression
Picnics
Unemployment
Great Depression Great Depression
Depths
Picnic
Reached
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More than the Big Mac, Coca Cola, or Levi's 501 jeans, the dollar is surely the United States' signature export.
Barry Eichengreen / Economist
Jeans
Signatures
United States
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Every day it seems more likely that we are destined - or should one say doomed? - to replay the disastrous economic history of the 1930s.
Barry Eichengreen / Economist
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Doomed
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Disastrous
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Across the continent, political divisions are deepening. For all of these reasons, the specter of a euro zone collapse has not been dispatched.
Barry Eichengreen / Economist
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Continent
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The 1992 crisis proved that the existing system was unstable. Not moving forward to the euro would have set up Europe for even more disruptive crises.
Barry Eichengreen / Economist
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Euro
Europe
Moving
Moving Forward
Unstable
Crises
Existing
Proved
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While holding the eurozone together will be costly and difficult and painful for the politicians, breaking it up will be even more costly and more difficult.
Barry Eichengreen / Economist
Painful
Politician
Together
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As for the single market, the E.U.'s landmark achievement, there is no question that a euro zone breakup would severely disrupt its operation in the short run.
Barry Eichengreen / Economist
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Breakup
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Zone
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No Question
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Political union means transferring the prerogatives of national legislatures to the European parliament, which would then decide how to structure Europe's fiscal, banking, and monetary union.
Barry Eichengreen / Economist
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Europe
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Political
Structure
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Fiscal
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Southern Europe has not done enough to enhance its competitiveness, while northern Europe has not done enough to boost demand. Debt burdens remain crushing, and Europe's economy remains unable to grow.
Barry Eichengreen / Economist
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Competitiveness
Crush
Demand
Europe
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Burdens
Crushing
Enhance
Northern
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Unable
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The consequences of a collapse would not be pretty. Whichever country precipitated it - Germany by threatening to abandon the euro, or Greece or Spain by actually doing so - would trigger economic chaos and incur its neighbours' wrath.
Barry Eichengreen / Economist
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Chaos
Collapse
Country
Euro
Germany
Greece
Spain
Threatening
Wrath
Consequences
Neighbours
Trigger
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This crisis of long-term unemployment is having a profoundly damaging impact on the lives of those bearing the brunt of it. We know this thanks to a series of careful studies of the problem conducted in the depths of the 1930s Great Depression.
Barry Eichengreen / Economist
Depression
Careful
Crisis
Great Depression
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Long Term
Thanks
Unemployment
Bearing
Brunt
Damaging
Depths
Profoundly
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For those unfortunate enough to experience it, long-term unemployment - now, as in the 1930s - is a tragedy. And, for society as a whole, there is the danger that the productive capacity of a significant portion of the labour force will be impaired.
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Danger
Labour
Long
Long Term
Productive
Significant
Tragedy
Unemployment
Impaired
Portion
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Why was there so much work-sharing in the 1930s? One reason is that government pushed for it. In his memoirs, President Herbert Hoover estimated that as many as two million workers avoided unemployment as a result of his efforts to promote work-sharing.
Barry Eichengreen / Economist
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Avoided
Effort
Hoover
Two
Unemployment
Workers
Efforts
Estimated
Herbert
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