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E.g., a smoothing approach interprets any sustained downturn as permanent — so it ends up saying that the Great Depression was over by 1935. I actually worry Eeckhout's approach may be doing a milder version of this now, over-interpreting favorable recent inflation shocks 7/ — PolitiTweet.org