The Great American Recession: What Does It Mean For You?

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Ed Leamer, one of America's leading economic forecasters, provided expert analysis and predictions on the global economic crisis at a public lecture at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music in March 2009. Leamer is Director of UCLA's Anderson Forecast and was the first to predict the 2001 US recession and to warn of the seriousness of America's growing housing bubble in 2005.

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