GEO 312 Study Guide - Niall Ferguson, Economic Bubble, National Bureau Of Economic Research
3 May 2011
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Viva las vegas final exam i n class notes. Las vegas is the last great mythic city that western civilization will ever create (ventura 1995: vegas is arguably the most interesting american city of the moment (newman 1995) The course: a deconstruction of las vegas. Casino capitalism->triumph of the dark forces: the big picture www. notesolution. com, inflation was the key econmic problem from 1960s-1980s (kennedy to. Reagan: 1991: fall of the berlin wall, triumph of capitalism. ascendancy of free markets: since ww2 there has never been a period of deflation and it has always been inflation, high volatility, inflation, price stability, stable inflation through the years. paul volker appointed as chairman of the federal reserve in 1979-a turning point in policy as the emphasis turned to breaking the inflationary spiral. the federal reserve"s success in taming inflation resulted in two decades of falling real interest rates and rising share and property prices.
