David Haggith is a regular contributor at Seeking Alpha, TalkMarkets, and Zero Hedge. He lives in the Pacific Northwest and is the author of DOWNTIME: Why We Fail to Recover from Rinse and Repeat Recession Cycles and publisher of The Great Recession Blog for ten years, from which his articles about the economy are carried on over fifty economic news websites. He has written articles on economics for The Hudson Valley Business Journal and several other newspapers and has been interviewed by Caixin, one of the largest publishers of economic news in China, and quoted by Forbes and has been interviewed on numerous radio shows. His Twitter page of occasional economic humor is @EconomicRecess. He regularly writes for RT.com and ZeroHedge.com.