Herbert Hoover

Wanted: A Good Keynesian. Massive Public Investment Will Fix the Economy

Paul Abrams | Posted 10.13.2008 | Politics

Read More: John McCain, Balanced Budget, Economy, Herbert Hoover, Great Depression, Fdr, New Deal, Public Investment, Fdr New Deal, Politics News
Paul Abrams

If anyone did not think a McCain presidency would be both a foreign policy and a domestic disaster, you now have proof positive.

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Obama and America's Promise

Jacob Heilbrunn | Posted 10.08.2008 | Politics

Read More: Herbert Hoover, Landslide Election, Barack Obama, Barack Obama Landslide, Indiana, George W. Bush, Politics News
Jacob Heilbrunn

At a moment when America is facing financial woes that can only be compared to those it faced after the October 1929 crash, Obama, like FDR, offers the promise of a young, vigorous leader.

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$700 Billion Wise, Several Trillion Foolish

James Berman | Posted 10.01.2008 | Business

Read More: JP Morgan Chase, Citigroup, Bailout, Wells Fargo, Laissez-Faire, All in the Family, FDIC Insurance, Recession, Great Depression, Herbert Hoover, Economy, Business News
James Berman

The divide between a severe recession and a depression is vast. It's important to keep this divide in mind, because an error in the measure of that gap can lead to major mistakes.

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We'd Like To Thank You Herbert Hoover ... er, Alan Greenspan

Liesl Schillinger | Posted 10.01.2008 | Business

Read More: Musical, Herbert Hoover, Depression, Alan Greenspan, George W. Bush, Economy, Henry Paulson, Daddy Warbucks, Annie, Wall Street, Liesl Schillinger, Show Tunes, Business News
Liesl Schillinger

I've updated one of "Annie's" melodies, "We'd Like to Thank You Herbert Hoover," to give you a tune to whistle to distract yourself from thoughts of the coming Newpression.

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Of Wannabe Sith Lords and Maverick Politicians

Steven Denlinger | Posted 10.01.2008 | Politics

Read More: Europe, Oncologist, Brownnoser, Straight Talk Express, George W. Bush, Maverick, Sith Lord, China, Wall Street Journal, Sarah Palin, House Republicans, Ventura, Reagan, Lung Cancer, Richard Nixon, Nancy Pelosi, Citibank, Russia, Little Ice Age, Jimmy Stewart, Us Treasury, Gary Cooper, Admiral Stockdale, Herbert Hoover, John McCain, Chase, Joe Blow, Lou Dobbs, Newt Gingrich, Democrats, Marc Seltzer, Barack Obama, Jerry Ford, Fed Chairman, Thames River, Chicken, High Noon, Georgia, Ben Bernanke, Treasury Secretary, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, Politics News
Steven Denlinger

A FRIEND recently sent me an email that expressed his frustration with the bailout plan: "I was talking with a businessman on Sunday (Ventura way),...

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Worse than Hoover

Jacob Heilbrunn | Posted 09.29.2008 | Politics

Read More: Congress Bailout Vote, Herbert Hoover, Bailout Vote, Economy, House Bailout, Politics News
Jacob Heilbrunn

So the verdict is in. The House's failure to pass the bailout bill means that George W. Bush's record will not be as bad as Herbert Hoover's. It will be worse.

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MEMO TO BUSH: Declare War on Stockbrokerism

Steven Denlinger | Posted 09.20.2008 | Home

Read More: Laissez Faire, Christians, Bill Clinton, Republican Congress, Wmd, Ronald Reagan, War on Terror, Stock Market, Wells Fargo, George W. Bush, Christopher Cox, Obama, Iraq, Chrysler, Saddam Hussein, Wall Street, Muslims, Night Terrors, Saudi Arabia, Persecute, Ruling Republican Elite, Poland, Russia, Afghanistan, War Bonds, Herbert Hoover, Home News
Steven Denlinger

Imagine this situation: Russia attacks America, and in order to teach the world what happens when you try attacking America's Mighty Might, we attack...

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A Fitting Denouement to the Era of George W. Bush

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 09.19.2008 | Politics

Read More: Robert Rubin, John McCain, Economy, Hillary Clinton, Glass-Steagall, Barack Obama, Economic Meltdown, Financial Crisis, Herbert Hoover, Politics News
Joseph A. Palermo

The worst financial collapse since the Great Depression is somehow a fitting end to eight miserable years under the worst presidential administration ...

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Sam Stein

Reid, Dems Go For McCain's Jugular

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 09.16.2008 | Politics

Read More: Herbert Hoover, Harry Reid, Democrats Message, Schumer, Obama Economics, Democrats Jugular, Barack Obama, Dem Message, Mccain Jugula, Bush's Shadow, McCain Economics, Bernie Sanders, Politics News

Democrats, going after John McCain and the GOP jugular, are launching a coordinated attack over the economy, painting the current administration as th...

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Putting The "O" In GOP -- Will Republicans Nominate Their Oldest Ticket Ever?

Mark Nickolas | Posted 08.20.2008 | Politics

Read More: Herbert Hoover, John McCain, Oldest Candidate, President Bush, Ronald Reagan, Jack Kemp, Oldest President, Bob Dole, Politics News
Mark Nickolas

If McCain opts for either Lieberman or Ridge, they'll hold the all-time GOP record for oldest presidential ticket.

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What Issues? It's About Personality!

Tom Alderman | Posted 08.06.2008 | Politics

Read More: Dalai Lama, John McCain, 1932 Depression, Presidential Campaigns, George W. Bush, Obama, Mccain, Franklin Roosevelt, Barbecue Guy, Missile Gap, Barack Obama, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Lifetime TV, Richard Nixon, John Kennedy, John Kerry, Stanford University, Every Woman Counts, Herbert Hoover, Politics News
Tom Alderman

Whether we admit it, or not, presidential campaigns are more about personality than policies, temperament over brains, and has been since broadcasting began.

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Panic, Anyone?

Robert S. McElvaine | Posted 07.03.2008 | Politics

Read More: Bush Economy, John McCain, Herbert Hoover George W. Bush, Bear Market, Panic, Pete Seeger, Franklin Roosevelt, Depression, Barack Obama, Recession, Herbert Hoover, Politics News
Robert S. McElvaine

While President Bush continues to toss around such euphemisms as "rough patch" and "tough times," most Americans have clearly felt the effects of a recession for the past few months.

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McLaughlin Uses 1932's "Happy Days" with 1924 Convention

John Tepper Marlin | Posted 04.06.2008 | Politics

Read More: Alfred E. Smith, Calvin Coolidge, Cambridge, Prohibition, Happy Days Are Here Again, 1932 Convention, Oxford, 1924 Convention, Herbert Hoover, Fdr, Politics News
John Tepper Marlin

Today the McLaughlin Group showed a short video of the 1924 Democratic convention in Madison Square Garden as background to a cautionary exchange on ...

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Wanted: U.S. President, No MBA Required

Fox Business | Dunstan Prial | Posted 02.18.2008 | Business

Read More: Theodore Roosevelt, Presidents With Business Experience, Herbert Hoover, Business News

The only president in the past century with anything resembling a proven -- let alone successful -- business background was Herbert Hoover. That's ri...

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Bush Will Be This Century's Herbert Hoover...Unless the Dems Select the Clintons

Paul Abrams | Posted 01.27.2008 | Politics

Read More: The Clintons, Harry Truman, George W. Bush, Katrina, Democratic Party, Republican Party, Radical Right Wing, Barack Obama, Herbert Hoover, Hoovervilles, Politics News
Paul Abrams

After all the damage and all the carnage caused by the disastrous policies and arrogant belief system of George W. Bush and his cronies, the only saving grace is that he paves the way for a progressive revival.

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President George W. Hoover

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 01.22.2008 | Business

Read More: Thomas Friedman, John McCain, Stephen Colbert, Mbuto Sese Seko, Herbert Hoover, George W. Bush, Business News
Joseph A. Palermo

The Republicans are so busy denouncing the Democrats as defeatists in Iraq, they've missed their own defeat in the realm of economics, (which the media tell us is the Republicans' strong suit).

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Romney Says Bush Sr Is A Personal Hero - - Compares W To Hoover

Washington Post | Juliet Eilperin | Posted 01.16.2008 | Politics

Read More: Herbert Hoover, Goerge Bush, Mitt Romney, George W. Bush, 2008 Campaign, 2008 Elections, 2008 Presidential Campaign, Romney's Heroes, Michigan, George H.W. Bush, Politics News

When former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney paid tribute to his presidential heroes during his victory speech last night, he left out one prominent...

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Worst President Ever?

Paul Finkelman | Posted 12.21.2007 | Politics

Read More: Worst President, Bill Clinton, Lyndon Johnson, George W. Bush, Bush Legacy, U.S.-Vienamese Relations, Warren G. Harding, Herbert Hoover, Politics News
Paul Finkelman

What happens after Bush leaves office will in some ways determine his place in history. If the next president figures out how to extricate us from Iraq and how to repair our image abroad, Bush will, ironically, not look so bad.

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Snake Oil: The Republican Art of Fooling the Public

Dan Agin | Posted 11.15.2007 | Politics

Read More: Theodore Roosevelt, Herbert Hoover, Republican Lies, Watergate, Ronald Reagan, Government Conmen, George W. Bush, Civil Rights Act of 1964, Grenada, Catherine the Great, Dick Cheney, Iraq War, Gerald Ford, Phony Politicians, Reagan Conman, Dwight Eisenhower, Mistakes by Presidents, Cheney Haliburton, Republican Hypocrisy, Madame Blavatsky, Reagan Mistakes, Political Mishaps, Vietnam, Richard Nixon, Cleopatra, Political Embarassments, Iraq, Republican Party, Snake Oil, Conmen, Great Depression, Republicans, Politics News
Dan Agin

In politics, we don't remember enough. We forget how much of American political history is a history of con-men selling us "snake oil."

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