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Taking Bets

By The Daily Dish

Mar 4 2009, 12:44 PM ET

Conservative Harvard economist Robert Barro glimpses disaster ahead:

There is a roughly one-in-five chance that U.S. GDP and consumption will fall by 10% or more, something not seen since the early 1930s.

Nate Silver is puzzled by the research.



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