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and why does that happen?
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The prevailing view about business cycles
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was that they were determined by monetary policy
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and what led to contractionary monetary policy
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was either a mistake by the Fed
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or a necessary action by the Fed as inflation accelerated.
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It is interesting to contemplate that
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if one looks before or after what one might think of
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as the Okun period and tries to give a simple account
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of what was behind the business cycles that took place,
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one offers a rather different kind of story.
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1907 is linked to a financial panic;