The Great Depression
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The simple answer: Mr. Obama’s behavior toward Wall Street since coming into office. FDR’s New Deal didn’t bring an end to the Great Depression. When he ran against Kansas Governor Alf Landon in 1936, the country was still wallowing in post-1929... Full Article at The Moderate Voice
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LONDON, ENGLAND - MARCH 02: (EDITORS NOTE: THE MOUNT HOLDING THE COIN CONTAINS DUST AND DIRT) A 'Double Eagle' gold twenty dollar coin is displayed above a catalogue picture showing the reverse side of the coin at Goldsmith's Hall on March 2, 2012 in... View Photo »
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The (General Fund) budgets in 2011 will be the worst budgets the state of Alabama has faced since the Great Depression ... Anybody that’s watching this train wreck understands this is an unprecedented problem for this generation. If we get it wrong, it can wreck our state just like it’s wrecking Califor...
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"When you study history, sometimes you don't get the full human-interest story," she added. "We've shown 'Cinderella Man' in the past, and we thought this would be a great opportunity for the kids to get the human side of what the Great Depression... Full Article at Adirondack Daily Enterprise
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ALTO – Elections often turn on the state of the economy, especially in hard times. When growth and jobs are down, voters throw out incumbents – whether Spanish leftists, French rightists, or Dutch centrists. The United States is no exception. Three... Full Article at Project Syndicate
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LONDON, ENGLAND - MARCH 02: (EDITORS NOTE: THE MOUNT HOLDING THE COIN CONTAINS DUST AND DIRT) Peter Swanston of the London Mint Office holds a 'Double Eagle' gold twenty dollar coin at Goldsmith's Hall on March 2, 2012 in London, England. Nearly half a... View Photo »
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The best way to think about this continued slump, I’d argue, is to accept the fact that we’re in a depression ... No, it’s not the Great Depression, at least not for most of us. . . . But it’s nonetheless essentially the same kind of situation that John Maynard Keynes described in the 1930s.
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Our forces were engaged in two wars. Al Qaeda, which had attacked us on 9/11, was entrenched in their safe havens. Many of our alliances were strained and our standing in the world had suffered. Our economy was in the worst recession since the Great... Full Article at Chicago Sun-Times
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But what is really at stake is the real reason things are failing. We cannot allow history to think that the United Kingdom tried austerity. It is simply not true. If we interpret this wrong, we will get the wrong historical lessons. In fact, something... Full Article at Crisis Magazine
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The Great Depression was a severe worldwide economic depression in the decade preceding World War II. The timing of the Great Depression varied across nations, but in most countries it started in about 1929 and lasted until the late 1930s or early 1940s. It was the longest, most widespread, and deepest depression of the 20th century, and is used... Full Article At Wikipedia.org
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