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Herbert Hoover

Time to Try Government as Employer of Last Resort

Marshall Auerback | Posted 11.17.2009 | Business

Read More: Deficit, Roosevelt-Institute, Social Security, Unemployment, Federal Deficit, New Deal 2.0, Herbert Hoover, Business News
Marshall Auerback

The president still seems curiously hamstrung by his Herbert Hoover-like devotion to fiscal rectitude: he wants to spend but not add "one dime to the deficit."

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Echoes of a Distant Crash

Robert S. McElvaine | Posted 10.26.2009 | Politics

Read More: Ronald Reagan, Public Option, Black Tuesday, 1929 Stock Market Crash, Franklin Roosevelt, Tva, Free Market Ideology, Conservative Economics, Barack Obama, Herbert Hoover, Great Depression, Politics News
Robert S. McElvaine

Eighty years ago this week, an enormous sound emanated from lower Manhattan and began to spread in waves across the nation and, eventually, the world.

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Barack Obama: Left-Handed? Right-Handed? Ambidextrous? Ambivalent?

David Finkle | Posted 09.29.2009 | Politics

Read More: Harry S. Truman, Left-Handed, Bill Clinton, International Left-Handed Day, Golf, Right-Handed, Ronald Reagan, Gerald Ford, Ambidextrous, Professor Stephen Christman, George G. W. Bush, Healthcare Reform, Barack Obama, Martha's Vineyard, Herbert Hoover, Politics News
David Finkle

I suspect the convictions that seem somewhat wobbly now that Obama has attained the nation's highest office would immediately strengthen if he looked his two hands over and committed once and for all to the left one.

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The GOP's Road to Perdition

Bennet Kelley | Posted 08.02.2009 | Politics

Read More: President Obama Administration, Polling, Congressional Republicans, Herbert Hoover, Subprime Mortgages, Herbert Hoover George W. Bush, Financial Meltdown, Gop, The-Art-of-War, Sun Tzu, Politics News
Bennet Kelley

Even life-long Republicans like Waldport and Oregon Mayor Herman Welch have left the party, citing the Beltway's Republicans placing of "worn out ideology," over the interests of the country.

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What Wonders He Has Seen

Roger I. Abrams | Posted 05.27.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: California Gold Rush, Wrigley Field, Peter Seitz, Arthur Gidden, Great Recession, Burleigh Grimes, Yankees, Boston Braves, Fenway Park, Black Sox Scandal, Red Sox, Ty Cobb, Commissioner Landis, Great Depression, Babe Ruth, Herbert Hoover, Entertainment News
Roger I. Abrams

On Saturday, April 24, we went to Fenway Park to see Arthur Giddon, the Red Sox honorary bat boy. Also scheduled was a match bet...

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John Judis at Hoover Institution: Democratic Majority for Decades?

Natasha Chen | Posted 04.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Hoover Institute, Herbert Hoover, Depression, Obama, Stanford University, Democratic Party, Recession, John Judis, Obama Transition, Politics News
Natasha Chen

In the process of fixing the country's problems, Obama has the chance to solidify a Democratic majority for decades to come.

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The Future of Bush's Past

Stuart Blumin | Posted 03.06.2009 | Politics

Read More: George Bush, Herbert Hoover, Healthcare System, Karl Rove, Carbon Emissions, Harry Truman, George W. Bush, Environmentalism, Passing the Buck, Justice Department, Barack Obama, Dick Cheney, History, Environmental Protection Agency, Environment and Government, Marshall Plan, Middle East, Nato, Environment, Department of Justice, Health Care System, Health Care, Politics News
Stuart Blumin

History will identify the Bush-Cheney administration as the last holdout of the Age of Carbon, using its crucial eight years to block every effort to end the reign of fossil fuels.

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Frank Rich: Herbert Hoover Lives As The GOP Goes AWOL

New York Times | Frank Rich | Posted 03.03.2009 | Politics

Read More: Herbert Hoover, Frank Rich Republicans Herbert Hoover, GOP Awol, Frank Rich, Politics News

ERE'S a bottom line to keep you up at night: The economy is falling faster than Washington can get moving. President Obama says his stimulus plan will...

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Retro-Hooverites All

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 02.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: Economic Stimulus Package, President Barack Obama, Tom Delay, George W. Bush, Phil Gramm, Alan Greenspan, Infrastructure Crisis, Republican Party, Arthur Laffer, American Society of Civil Engineers, Herbert Hoover, Republicans, Economic Crises, Hooverites, Congress Stimulus, U.S. Economy, Obama Stimulus, Economy, Economic Crisis, Obama Economy, Obama Stimulus Plan, Politics News
Joseph A. Palermo

The Republicans voted against their country today. Their fellow citizens needed them to act on their behalf and instead they chose to abandon them. Theirs is an ersatz patriotism.

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In With the New

Michael DeJong | Posted 02.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: Bill Clinton, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, President Obama, Ronald Reagan, William Shakespeare, Macbeth, Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, George Bush Barack Obama, George Washington, Theodore Roosevelt, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Abraham Lincoln, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Grover Cleveland, Ulysses S. Grant, Herbert Hoover, Barack Obama, Politics News
Michael DeJong

Presidents come in various shapes and sizes, ages, disciplines and principles. But what many of them seem to have in common is their unwavering obsession with cleanliness...literally or figuratively.

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Countdown to Emancipation

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 02.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Missing White House Emails, Inauguration of Obama, Obama Inaugural, Obama's Presidential Inauguration, George Walker Bush, Presidential Transition, Barack Obama, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Herbert Hoover, Emancipation From Corrupt Rule, Obama's Inauguration, Politics News
Joseph A. Palermo

We're a little more than twenty-four hours away from finally awaking from a long national nightmare.

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Obama or FDR: Whose Strategy Will Work Better?

Hoyt Hilsman | Posted 02.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: George Bush, White House, Rescue Package, Inauguration Day, Economic Crisis, Public Opinion, Banking Crisis, Obama, Barack Obama, Presidential Transition, Bush, Fdr, Bailout, Economic Rescue Package, The Defining Moment, Jonathan Alter, Inauguration, Bank Holiday, Obama Transition, 1929 Crash, Banks, Financial Crisis, Stock Market, Presidency, Roosevelt, Great Depression, Herbert Hoover, Politics News
Hoyt Hilsman

One significant difference between the Roosevelt transition and that of Barack Obama is the swiftness with which the Obama transition team has moved to address the nation's economic crisis.

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The Bush Presidency: Shakespearean Tragedy or Cruel Farce?

Hoyt Hilsman | Posted 01.26.2009 | Politics

Read More: George Bush, Douglas Feith, White House, Herbert Hoover, Colin Powell, Economic Crisis, George W. Bush, Hurricaine Katrina, Donald Rumsfeld, Paul Bremer, Iraq, American Foreign Policy, Bush, Dick Cheney, Bush Economy, Iraq War, Bush Administration, Paul Wolfowitz, Condoleezza Rice, George Tenet, Tommy Franks, President Bush Economy, Financial Crisis, Richard Perle, Richard Nixon, Politics News
Hoyt Hilsman

Unlike earlier failed presidents like Herbert Hoover and Richard Nixon, Bush does not seem to acknowledge or even recognize the destruction that he has wrought.

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HoobertHeever

Jeff Danziger | Posted 01.23.2009 | Politics

Read More: Recession, Herbert Hoover, Political Cartoon, Bush, Politics, Cartoons, Humor, Political Humor, Cartoon, Political Cartoons, Politics News
Jeff Danziger

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"Transplant" Automakers Get Over $3.6 Billion in Subsidies; More Unions, Ralph Nader Comment

Steve Parker | Posted 01.13.2009 | Business

Read More: Change to Win, Herbert Hoover, Chrysler, Decherd, Buffalo, Honda, Blue Springs, Mercedes-Benz, Cars, Montgomery, Ford, Volkswagen, Senators, Nissan, Infrastructure, Princeton, Benedict Arnold, General Motors, Hyundai, Greensburg Indiana, Essential Action, Ralph Nader, Uaw, Lafayette, Toyota, Canton, Detroit Three, Ohio, San Antonio, United Steelworkers, Kia, Huntsville, Democrats, Foreign-Owned, Good Jobs First, Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, Bush Administration, Chattanooga, Detroit Three Loans, Bmw, Subaru, International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, Transplant, Tax Exempt, Smyrna, Unions, Japanese Transplants, Spartanburg, Republicans, Detroit Bailout, Auto Industry, Business News
Steve Parker

This post has the latest news on the billions in subsidies which off-shore transplant carmakers have received from state and local governments.

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Post Election Predictions for All News Junkies

Tom Alderman | Posted 12.07.2008 | Media

Read More: Ronald Reagan, Meet the Press, Obama, Activist Government, Keith Olbermann, Harold Stassen, Sarah Palin, Elizabeth Hasselbeck, Msnbc, The Plumber, Katie Couric, Rupert Murdoch, Joe, Ralph Nader, Herbert Hoover, Holographic Reporters, Lincoln, Bill Clinton, John McCain, Michael Bloomberg, Mitt Romney, Steve Doocy, Chris Matthews, CBS Evening News, Hilary Clinton, Fox News, Cnn, Tom Brokaw, Rachel Maddow, Shep Smith, Arlen Spector, Lyndon Johnson, President-Elect Obama, Roosevelt, Coolidge, Harding, Media News
Tom Alderman

For news junkies, the fun has just begun. There's an administration to cast, speculation about post-election deals, mergers and maneuvers. And how about the people who deliver the news?

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A Cell Phone Call During Mass (Remembering the Anti-Catholic Smears of the 1928 Election)

David Quigg | Posted 11.19.2008 | Politics

Read More: Herbert Hoover, Catholicism, Politics News, Negative Campaigning, Joe Biden, 1928 Election, 2008 Election, Catholic Church, Religion, John Hagee, Voter Disenfranchisement, Al Smith, Barack Obama, Sarah Palin, Smears, John McCain, Bigotry, Wedge Issues, Robocalls, Politics News
David Quigg

"Great-great-grandma Frances will set you straight. By the time I'm done with you, you'll vote for who you want to vote for. You won't let anybody scare you out of it. That's the lesson of Al Smith."

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The Hoover-Palin Ticket

Robert Scheer | Posted 11.14.2008 | Politics

Read More: Robert Scheer, Herbert Hoover, Phil Gramm, Campaign '08, Bailout, Barack Obama, Truthdig, Sarah Palin, Pornography of Power, Fdr, Wall Street, Roosevelt, John McCain, Politics News
Robert Scheer

The hero of the hour is FDR, as the essential wisdom of his New Deal is now embraced by most Republicans as well as Democrats.

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

Paul Abrams | Posted 11.13.2008 | 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 11.08.2008 | 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 11.01.2008 | 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 11.01.2008 | 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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Worse than Hoover

Jacob Heilbrunn | Posted 10.30.2008 | 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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A Fitting Denouement to the Era of George W. Bush

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 10.20.2008 | 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 10.17.2008 | 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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