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What is the 2008 trap and how do we avoid it?

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The 2008-Style Trap

The 2008-style trap is to downplay the labor shortage and say that's protection. If this other stuff in the financial economy gets out of hand, we have a large margin of error because look at all this demand for it. It's a labor shortage. Therefore the economy, even if it does slow down a little bit, will never slow down more than a little bit. The credit crunch ends up having more than just an impact on the real economy, directly in consumer spending and credit. It also disrupts financial markets.

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