ELENA PANARITIS : ''THE REAL ESTATE ROOTS OF THE CRISIS''

''Two years after it began, there is now a coalescing of opinion about the causes of the U.S. financial crisis and what should be done to resolve it, yet there is a serious element missing both in the causation analysis as well as in the prescriptive solution. This crisis, which has infected the global economy so severely, is very much a non-traditional one that calls for a non-traditional solution. The impact in the United States so far has been worse than anything since the Great Depression: unemployment reached 9.5 percent in June, up from 7.8 percent in January, home prices were down 27% at the end of the first quarter from their 2006 peak, and 1.5 million homes were in foreclosure. After jumping by 30 percent in February, home foreclosure rates tapered off but are again on the rise. According to the New York Times, the loss in property value could total $500 billion..''

Elena Paneritis, ''F.T.''
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Οταν φιλοξενήθηκε το άρθρο, στην τιμητική θέση της αρθρογραφίας του καθηγητή Buiter, στους ''F.T.'', η Έλενα Πανερίτη ήταν άγνωστη στην Ελλάδα. Τώρα είναι βουλευτής του Πασοκ στην δεύτερη θέση του ψηφοδελτίου επικρατείας.