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The uniqueness of this recession is the panic about the eventual seriousness of the recession and temporary loss of credit access for many businesses in early September.  The panic was inevitable since the problem was neither anticipated by most nor well understood when it happened.  Everyone saw both Congress and the presidential candidates bewildered by the unexpected development and quite willing to defer to technical experts to find and implement a solution while they set about the important task of finding someone to blame.

This put enough spending, both investment and consumption, on hold to assure that October will be …

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