1980s

Layaway message resurrected for holiday shoppers

Wed, 22 Oct 2008 00:53:33 -0500

A payment method that became decidedly passe in the 1980s is being promoted again this holiday season as a way for budget-conscious shoppers to buy gifts without breaking the bank.

Direct US stake in banks has many precedents

Tue, 14 Oct 2008 16:43:25 -0500

For all the thorny free-market issues raised, the big U.S. intervention in banks does have precedents — from wholesale wartime takeovers of entire industries to the seizing of hundreds of failed savings and loans in the 1980s. Most nationalizations have been temporary, but some endure, like Amtrak.

Shallow Recessions, Shallow Recoveries

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 18:44:03 -0500

Economic recoveries in the decade after World War II were brisk affairs, but then they slowed. After stabilizing in the 1980s and 1990s, they seem to have taken another step down.

When the feds do bail out the financial system, what will they d...

Mon, 17 Mar 2008 02:57:24 -0500

The U.S. savings and loan crisis of the 1980s ended up costing taxpayers 3.2 percent of G.D.P., the equivalent of $450 billion today. Some estimates put the fiscal cost of Japan's post-bubble cleanup at more than 20 percent of G.D.P.

US economy risks a 'lost decade' like Japan

Fri, 29 Feb 2008 13:06:41 -0600

Japan during the 1990s experienced a wave of stagnation, as the insane property bubble of the 1980s burst and then proceeded to show how ineffective monetary policy can be. Now, America finds itself in a perilously similar situation.