One dip or two?

On this episode of Counting the Cost, we look at the threat of a double-dip recession, Pakistani cricket and the world of sports betting.

Nouriel Roubini: This Is What Obama Could Do To Prevent A Double-Dip

BY NOURIEL ROUBINI, MICHAEL MORAN | NOVEMBER 2010

Roughly three years since the onset of the financial crisis, the U.S. economy increasingly looks vulnerable to falling back into recession. The United States is flirting with "stall speed," an anemic rate of growth that, if it persists, can lead to collapses in spending, consumer confidence, credit, and other crucial engines of growth. Call it a "double dip" or the Great Recession, Round II: Whatever the term, we're talking about a negative feedback loop that would be devilishly hard to break.
If Barack Obama wants a realistic shot at a second term, he'll need to act quickly and decisively to prevent this scenario.

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Roubini : No Double dip Recession

On Sunday, in Aix en Provence, at an annual conference of Le Cercle des économistes, a French group, Prof. Roubini said that a second contraction was not likely, either in the United States or in the world economy as a whole.

This sounded reassuring, in the wake of a column by the Nobel-prize winning economist Paul Krugman in the New York Times, in which he likened the present to the 1930s and said, “The odds of a prolonged slump are rising by the day.” That column has stimulated a vast amount of worried commentary in the past few weeks.
Source The Globe and Mail