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Credit squeeze/tightening

I redirected the Credit tightening page to the Credit squeeze page since the text was pretty much exactly the same on both articles. - Akamad (talk) 07:14, 8 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Good move. Although perhaps (based on my comments on the credit crunch talk page) tightening should survive and squeeze should collapse into tightening. It's up the WP guardians to sort out, but that would be my suggestion. Just to be clear: crunch and tightening are clearly separate. Squeeze can be used interchangeably with both, but should be used only the context of "tightening" (in my humble view). Squeeze is often ambiguous and messy and can refer to either. But functionally they are distinct and so need different terms to describe each phenomena. - Ron Paul...Ron Paul... (talk) 07:17, 8 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I have no knowledge on the matter. My reasoning for redirecting the tightening page to the squeeze page was because the tightening page was recently created, whereas the squeeze page had a longer history. - Akamad (talk) 07:23, 8 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

OK, we'll see what happens. It would be (slightly) more consistent to have tightening survive and squeeze die out, but I don't mind either way, provided crunch and squeeze/tightening are kept as distinct concepts, in line with the World Bank paper (and general usage). - Ron Paul...Ron Paul... (talk) 07:26, 8 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]