Article: Writer's Gloomy U.S. Economic Forecast No Cause for Depression.

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Sep. 20 -- ATLANTA -- Armageddons are infinitely more fascinating than Edens. That's one of the reasons we are mesmerized by a hurricane hundreds of miles distant.

More to the point, upbeat economic forecasts leave us yawning. Give us the spine-chilling thrill of impending doom. If doom is your preference, take heart, Ravi Batra is back.

Batra is a professor of economics at Southern Methodist University who achieved considerable fame in the 1980s as one of several gurus whose books forecast the imminent end of the world as we know it.

Two of his titles, "The Great Depression of 1990" and "Surviving ...

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