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The Great Depression

You Are Not a "Great American," Sean Hannity

Andy Ostroy | Posted 11.10.2009 | Media

Read More: Michael Steele, Gop, Chris Christie, Bob Mcdonnell, President Obama, Sean Hannity, George W. Bush, Nancy Pelosi, Economic Recovery, Democratic Party, The Great Depression, Media News
Andy Ostroy

If Sean Hannity truly wants to be the "great American" he claims to be, he can start by being truthful to his listeners and by not rooting for his supposedly beloved America to fail under the current leadership.

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American Obsession With Rich Explains Bloomberg: Guardian

The Guardian | Hadley Freeman | Posted 10.14.2009 | New York

Read More: Anthony Marshall, Recession, American, Wealth, Brooke Astor, New York, New York City, Charlene Marshall, Jon Gosselin, Kate Gosselin, The Great Recession, Jon and Kate Plus 8, Brooke Astor Trial, Gosselin, Us Economic Crisis, Brooke Astor Anthony Marshall, The Great Depression, Astor, New York News

It's not that Americans are obsessed with people with money, exactly; it's that they are obsessed with how those people made that money and, more impo...

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For 37,000 New York Unemployed, Benefits Will Soon Lapse

nytimes.com | Patrick McGeehan | Posted 10.12.2009 | New York

Read More: Welfare, Economic Collapse, Unemployment, The Great Depression, Food Stamps, Economic Crisis, Economy, Health Insurance, Health Care Reform, The Great Recession, Unemployment Rate, Recession, New York, New York News

Tens of thousands of New Yorkers have had the unfortunate distinction of collecting unemployment benefits longer than anyone in the state's history. B...

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Jumpstarting Jobs: The Lost Lesson of the Great Depression

Paul Abrams | Posted 10.06.2009 | Business

Read More: Hording Wealth, The Great Crash, Capital Gains Tax, The Great Depression, John Kenneth Galbraith, Business News
Paul Abrams

The "investment deficit" -- the rich hoarding rather than investing their money -- is the forgotten lesson of the Great Depression. To jumpstart jobs, we need to remember it.

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There Will Be No Trade War

Gilbert B. Kaplan | Posted 10.05.2009 | Business

Read More: Smoot-Hawley, International Trade, Free Trade, Obama Administration, The Great Depression, Protectionism, China, Tires, Dorkings, Wto, China Tire Tariff Wto, Business News
Gilbert B. Kaplan

If you were going to start a trade war against the United States, it is unlikely that your first salvo would be on chicken parts, or as the Chinese rather charmingly first announced, on dorkings.

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3 Cassandras Bare Ticking Time Bombs

Dan Dorfman | Posted 08.13.2009 | Business

Read More: Jeannette Schwarz, Dow Industrial, Bill Rhodes, Bull Market, The Great Depression, Reserve Currency, Bear Market, Comex, J.C Spender, Greenback, Republicans, Trimtabs, Business News
Dan Dorfman

According to a trio of incisive trackers of the economic and investment scene, there are several ticking fiscal time bombs -- inconspicuous, and so far ignored -- that are waiting to explode.

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We're Going To The Moon...Again

Ben Fractenberg | Posted 06.29.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Neil Armstrong, The Great Depression, Nasa, MoveOn.Org, Jerry Bruckheimer, MTV Cribs, Moon, Subprime Mortgage Crisis, Save the Children, Bill Richardson, 1969 Moon Landing, Comedy News
Ben Fractenberg

From the people who brought you the 1969 moon landing comes a sequel. Let's call it, The Moon 2: This Time We Mean Business.

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Ryan Grim

Global Economic Shock Worse Than Great Depression

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 05.08.2009 | Business

Read More: Great Depression, Kevin O'rourke, Recession, Barry Eichengreen, Economic Depression, The Great Depression, Business News

The global economic collapse of the last several months is already greater than the shock that hit the world 80 years ago, triggering the Great Depres...

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U.S. Unemployment Rate Soars to Great Depression Levels

Sheldon Filger | Posted 05.06.2009 | Business

Read More: The Great Depression, U.S. Unemployment Rates, Jobless Rate, Global Economic Crisis, Labor Department, Unemployment Rate, Business News
Sheldon Filger

The massive rise in unemployment rates will facilitate further demand destruction, which in turn will lead to further job losses, as a vicious self-perpetuating engine of economic destruction runs amok.

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OECD: Depression Will Be Averted

AP | EMMA VANDORE | Posted 05.01.2009 | Business

Read More: US Economy, The Great Depression, Depression, Economy, Economic Crisis, Klaus Schmidt-Hebbel, Oecd, Great Depression, Oecd Klaus Schmidt-Hebbel, Business News

PARIS — Haunted perhaps by the ghost of Herbert Hoover, global leaders have steered the world away from a 1930s-style Great Depression by a "ver...

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Iceland is Sinking

Iris Erlingsdottir | Posted 03.28.2009 | World

Read More: The Great Depression, Iceland Economy, Iceland National Bankruptcy, Iceland Economic Crisis, Iceland Global Economic Crisis, Iceland Financial Crisis, Global Financial Crisis, Iceland Economy Collapse, Iceland, Iceland Bankrupt, Global Economic Crisis, Great Depression, World News
Iris Erlingsdottir

It is hard to see how we will be able to maintain a middle-class standard of living if there is a severe global downturn.

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Drinking Good for Depression? The Possible Repeal of Religious Repression

Warren Holstein | Posted 03.27.2009 | Comedy

Read More: The Great Depression, Depression, Big Three Automakers, Chrysler, Blue Laws Repealed, Blue-Laws-Repealed, Gm, Georgia, Christian Right, Franklin Roosevelt, Ford, Drinking, Prohibition, Christian Coalition, Constantine, Blue Laws, Blue-Laws, Great Depression, Corporate Jets, Economy, Religion, Comedy News
Warren Holstein

Following in the footsteps of Franklin Roosevelt, many states are now advocating an end to what many boozers and businessmen alike deem antiquated puritanical pap. The Christian Right is not amused.

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Senate Wanking Committee

Mike Bonifer | Posted 03.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Stimulus Package, Improvisation, Disney, Senate, Spolin, Government, The Senate, The Great Depression, Economic Injustice, Obama Administration, Bernie Madoff, Legislation, Injustice, The Stimulus Package, Wanking, John Lasseter, New Deal, TRON, Fdr, 1932, Shepard Fairey, Politics News
Mike Bonifer

Quit all the debating about the work and get to work, to the business of getting citizens into lifeboats. A seat on a lifeboat will lead to a profoundly productive life that will benefit all of us.

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"Feel-Good" Movies

Earl Pomerantz | Posted 02.27.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Entertainment, Shirley Temple, The Grapes of Wrath, Catharsis, Films, The Good Earth, Gangster Movies, Slumdog Millionaire, Movies, The Great Depression, Entertainment News
Earl Pomerantz

When economic times get tough, movies inevitably take a turn to the "feel good" variety. You go in feeling bad; you come out feeling better. At least, that's the theory.

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Too Big to Succeed

John Standerfer | Posted 02.23.2009 | Business

Read More: The Internet, The Great Depression, Fdic, Bankruptcy, Money, Economy, Bank of America, Websites, Venture Capital, Capitalism, Facebook, Taxpayers, Dotcom Crash, Superbowl Ads, Dot-Com Bust, Super Bowl Ads, Taxpayer Money, Youtube, Banks, Dotcom Boom, Dot-Com, Technology, Silicon Valley, Great Depression, Business News
John Standerfer

What we don't appear to understand yet is that no amount of money, time or regulation can possibly resolve this problem while a few banks continue to hold the entire nation hostage.

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Learning To Live Without Your Eight Inches

Tracey Jackson | Posted 02.13.2009 | Living

Read More: Consumerism, Lifestyle, Daily Show, Economy, Material Wealth, The Great Depression, Parenting and Budgeting, Eight Extra Inches, Excess, College Fund, Parenting and Money, Personal Budgeting, Recession, Personal Debt, Living News
Tracey Jackson

There are many who say we were not the savers grandparents were. There is truth to that. But we were also earners and innovators and for the most part good citizens.

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The (Great) Name Game: What to Call the Current Financial Crisis?

Brad Listi | Posted 02.09.2009 | Business

Read More: Subprime Crisis, Brad Listi, American History, Economy, Financial Crisis, Nicknames, The Great Depression, Business News
Brad Listi

We are now many months into a deep and ugly recession of genuine historical importance, and to the best of my knowledge, no official moniker has yet emerged. Let's choose one.

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Deficit or Depression?

Robert Kuttner | Posted 01.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: Economic Stimulus Package, The Great Depression, Inflation, Deficit Spending, Economy, Budget, Government Stimulus Package, Financial Crisis, New York Times, Politics News
Robert Kuttner

The government needs to spend a lot of money, so that the collapsing private economy does not end up as Great Depression II. When recovery comes, we can get the budget closer to balance.

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You Are a Whole Different Person When You Are Scared

Val Strange | Posted 01.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: Holidays, New Year's Eve, Depression, Baby Boomers, Fear, The Great Depression, Hope, Economy, Medical, Democracy, Taxpayers, Election, Death, Chris Shays, American Experiment, Politics, History, Scared, Dreams, Uninsured, Bailout, Christmas, Foreclosure, Family, American Dream, Politics News
Val Strange

The cancer of our sick economy already metastasized to the bone, but analysts are hard-pressed to diagnose the current conditions akin to the Great Depression.

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Christmas on the (Bi-) Polar Express

Elissa Altman | Posted 01.21.2009 | Living

Read More: The Great Depression, The Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come, Madoff, Mitch Miller, Julia Child, Food, Christmas Dinner, World War II, Sarah Palin, Pottersville, Living News
Elissa Altman

Maybe it's just my imagination, but I don't think so. The run-up to Christmas this year, with each passing day, just keeps getting odder and weirder,...

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We Need Action

Louise Mirrer | Posted 01.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Fireside Chats, The Great Depression, Depression, Economic Crisis, Fdr, Taking Action, Action, We Need Action, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Great Depression, Politics News
Louise Mirrer

Make no mistake: those famous black-and-white photographs of breadlines and Dust Bowl migrants have been vividly brought back to life by CNN and Fox.

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Democracy Is The Only Economics That Works

Dave Johnson | Posted 01.08.2009 | Politics

Read More: Democracy, Economy, Fdr, The Great Depression, Financial Crisis, Fdr Depression, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Fdr New Deal, Politics News
Dave Johnson

FDR believed that the depression was caused by wealth flowing to the top (as today) and would be corrected by asserting that We, the People take back control of our common resources.

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Is the Crisis Your Fault? or, Epochal Events On the Easy Credit Plan

RJ Eskow | Posted 12.26.2008 | Politics

Read More: Paul Hawken, Fareed Zakaria, Bill Mckibben, Economic Crisis, Economy, Newsweek, The Great Depression, Consumerism, Politics News
RJ Eskow

The root problem runs deeper than excessive personal debt. The problem lies in a value system that measures our human worth according to our net worth.

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The Obama Honeymoon

Donald Cohen | Posted 12.18.2008 | Politics

Read More: Barack Obama 2008, Medicare, Lbj, New Deal, Barack Obama, Fdr, Clinton's First 100 Days, The Great Depression, Obama Inauguration, Obama First 100 Days Policy, President Obama Policy, President Obama, Obama Administration, Lyndon B Johnson First 100 Days, Obama Inauguration Day, Fdr New Deal, Fdr First 100 Days, Obama White House, Clinton Gays in Military, First 100 Days, Obama First 100 Days, Obama Honeymoon, President Elect Obama, Politics News
Donald Cohen

Barack Obama has the chance to create an impressive and paradigm-shifting package of legislation and new public programs. People voted for change. Now let's do it.

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Leather Up

Mauri Weakley | Posted 11.22.2008 | Style

Read More: 3.1 Phillip Lim, Leather, Economy, Marc by Marc Jacobs, The New York Times, Fashion, Rag & Bone, The Daily Beast, The Great Depression, Staerk, Style News
Mauri Weakley

In light of this recent tailspin economy I marvel at the thought of designers having tapped into a dark foreboding when they sourced fabrications for their Fall 08 collections months ago.

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