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The book discusses the timber bubble in the Pacific Northwest in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Prices for timber rose rapidly, but eventually crashed, leading to a recession in the Northwest. The book argues that it was not the Federal Reserve's actions that caused the recession, but the actions of the buyers themselves.
This is a book about bubble prices, and their consequences, in the timber industry of the Pacific Northwest from 1979-1984. Bubble prices--unusual and rapid rises (and eventual drops) in the prices of a commodity--have been of theoretical interest to economists for many years. This study examines the unusual movements in the price of federal timber and the subsequent recession in the Northwest when timber buyers delayed harvests in order to postpone the realization of their losses on the contracts. Mattey argues that it was not so much the actions of the Federal Reserve, which had been widely blamed for the crisis, but rather the actions of the buyers themselves that caused the recession.
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