Ting Shen/Bloomberg via Getty Images Interest rates typically decline during recessions as ... It’s possible for lenders to pull back in a financial crisis as well, subjecting the economy to the ...

The current financial crisis is ferocious, but history shows the way to avoid ... as those suffered by some individual countries during deep crises in the past (see Chart 1). Another measure is the ...

The global economic crisis hurt commodity prices far less than in earlier recessions. The long-run outlook is murkier SOARING commodity prices were a hallmark of the global economic boom from 2003 to ...