• Consideration of the current credit cycle

    The thesis being considered here is that the current credit cycle started in about 1983. The question I am attempting to answer is what exactly changed from pre-1983 to post-1983 that moved us from a relatively more stable and natural economic growth model to a more volatile boom/bust cycle as we currently have.

    First I will begin with a discussion of monetary policy currently practiced by the Federal Reserve.
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