February 12, 2009 7:42AM 

# The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Recession 

By [Michael F. Cannon](https://www.cato.org/people/michael-f-cannon) 

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My colleague Alan Reynolds [has a message](https://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=9950) for all the paranoid androids in Washington…

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