The Great Depression

Can Writers Learn From The Great Depression?

Posted 12.06.2011

Read More: Authors on Strike, The Great Depression, Writers, Writing in the Great Depression, Writers on Strike, Galleycat, Writing, Writers' Strike, Federal Writers Project, Writers in the Great Depression, Jason Boog, Great Depression, Video, Books News

"There are plenty of people who will write for free." Jason Boog has heard this argument before. "'Writers are complaining? There are more pres...

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Time, Well-Being and the Political Moment

Paul Stoller | Posted 10.12.2011

Read More: The Great Depression, Government Shutdown, Public Servants, Standard & Poor's, Credit Crisis, Public Service, Politics, Digital Technology, Well Being, Wealth, The Internet, Niger, Social Misery, Economic Crisis, Social Isolation, Poltical Isolation, Double Dip Recession, Technology News
Paul Stoller

In America, the land of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, there seems to be a limited pool of well-being. We are wired-in, but existentially alone; we are electronically connected in social networks, but isolated from social groups.

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When We Can't Count on the Banks or Our Congress

Curtis Roosevelt | Posted 08.01.2011

Read More: Ferdinand Pecora, Fdr, Alan-Brinkley, Pecora Commission, Fdr New Deal, The Great Depression, Sara Delano Roosevelt, The Great Recession, Financial Regulation, Obama Big Banks, Politics News
Curtis Roosevelt

President Obama should note that President Roosevelt's slamming the bankers and financiers -- beginning with his inaugural address and right up through his campaign for a second term -- did not destroy the country's banking system.

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How Income Inequality Helped Spark the Great Recession

Jake Whitney | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Poor, The Great Depression, Trickle Down, Income Inequality, Economy, Great Recession, Middle Class, Great Depression, Sara Solnick, Robert Frank, Mary Kaptur, David Hemenway, Tunisia, Egypt, Politics News
Jake Whitney

Governmental policies over the past three decades have resulted in an indebted middle class. Yet a healthy society depends upon a large and vibrant one. Why aren't Americans more alarmed?

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No, the Jobs Crisis Isn't Over: What's the Progressive Plan?

Les Leopold | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: The Great Depression, Wall Street Crisis, Unemployment, Wall Street, Hedge Funds, Progressives, President Obama, Financial Crisis, Billionaires, Tea Party, Politics News
Les Leopold

The country is careening to the right and progressives are partly responsible. We can cry all we want, but the truth is that progressives lack the compelling, coherent vision we need to deal with the enormous unemployment crisis.

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Wall Street's Ten Biggest Lies for 2010

Les Leopold | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Lloyd Blankfein, Wall Street Bailout, The Great Depression, Unemployment Rate, President Obama, Wall Street Reform, Larry Summers, Peter Orszag, Billionaires, Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, Wall Street Crisis, Unemployment, Wall Street, Steven Schwarzman, Timothy Geithner, Wall Street Bonuses, Citigroup, Business News
Les Leopold

Before we completely forget that Wall Street is largely responsible for the economic mess we're in, let's revisit Wall Street's greatest fabrications for 2010.

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The Taboo Cure For Our National Gloom: Live A Little!

Joe Robinson | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: The Great Depression, The Balanced Life, Work-Life Balance Recreation, Work-Life Balance Recession, Living, Work-Life Balance, Recession Recreation, Recession, Recreation, Healthy Living News
Joe Robinson

We may have avoided an economic depression, but not a psychological one. Despair, helplessness and cynicism have the nation in a headlock, one that has pinned our resiliency to the mat.

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A Look At How The Economy Has Fared Since The Recession Ended

AP | By The Associated Press | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Economists, U.S. Economy, The Great Depression, U.S. Recession, Economic Recession 2010, Nber, Business News

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George Bush's Memoir: An American Tragedy

Jim Worth | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Iraq War, Deficit, Humility, George W. Bush, Katrina, The Great Depression, Decision Points, Bush Memoir, Politics News
Jim Worth

It was a dark time in our history. A black pall that befell our great nation. George Bush fooled me once, shame on me. I won't be fooled again! The ...

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Dispatches From Incredible 1934 Campaign: Hearst Rips Upton Sinclair, As Heywood Broun Warns of 'Fascism'

Greg Mitchell | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Elections, Upton Sinclair, Campaigns, Dirty Tricks, The Great Depression, Socialism, Heywood Broun, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Politics News
Greg Mitchell

William Randolph Hearst was back at San Simeon after an absence of five months and ready at last to select a candidate in the California governor's race. His papers had been crucifying Upton Sinclair for the past month.

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Dispatches From Incredible 1934 Campaign: H.L. Mencken Mocks Upton Sinclair, Riots in Movie Theaters

Greg Mitchell | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Election Campaign, Upton Sinclair, Dirty Tricks, Will Robers, The Great Depression, Fdr, Books News
Greg Mitchell

Upton Sinclair had been swallowing magic potions since the turn of the century, Henry Mencken declared during the California gubernatorial race of 1934, and now he was at it again.

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Your Conservative Friend Is Actually a Big Pinko. Or: How We Got Out of the Great Depression.

Aemilia Scott | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Taxes, Chris Christie, The Great Depression, Conservatives, Spending, Economy, Mortgage Lenders, World War II, The Great Recession, Tunnel, Foreclosure, Vietnam, New Jersey, Recession, Austerity, Politics News
Aemilia Scott

Why can Americans unite so quickly and powerfully behind a spending and sacrifice spree in the service of conflict, but can't seem to rationalize public works for sake of our own improvement?

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1950s: The Not-So-Silent Generation

Tom Alderman | Posted 05.25.2011

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Tom Alderman

Fred Kaplan's enlivening 1959: The Year Everything Changed, argues that the '50s -- a decade that saw the invention of the microchip and the creation of explosive art -- has been misunderstood in hindsight.

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Put Your Money With a Boring Bank

Katy Welter | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Move Your Money, Financial Crisis, Banks, Community Banks, The Great Depression, Wall Street Crisis, Wall Street, Stock Market, Banking Crisis, Recession, Business News
Katy Welter

What once was seen as a well-paid, respectable career choice for well-educated individuals, Wall Street banking devolved into a "casino culture operating in the financial-services industry."

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Where is the "New Deal"?

Hoyt Hilsman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Economic Recession, The New Deal, The Great Recession, Franklin Roosevelt, The Great Depression, Politics News
Hoyt Hilsman

While the strategies for recovery may be different on the right or on the left, the renewal of the government's social contract with its citizens should be paramount.

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Five Washington Excuses for Ignoring the Jobs Crisis

Les Leopold | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: The Great Depression, CEO Pay, Unemployment, Jobless Rate, Robert Gates, Third World America, Obama Administration, Financial Crisis, Timothy Geithner, Business News
Les Leopold

Our current unemployment trough directly violates the social compact that glues together modern industrial societies -- the tacit commitment that business and government will produce a full-employment economy.

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Rare Color Photos From The Great Depression (PHOTOS)

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: The Great Depression, Farm Services Administration, Color Photos From the Depression, Slidefullscreen, Business News

These rare color photos from the Great Depression were compiled by the Farm Services Administration from 1939 and 1944, and were recently gathered by ...

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Escaping the Sovereign Debt Trap: The Remarkable Model of the Commonwealth Bank of Australia

Ellen Brown | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Banking, Federal Reserve, Credit Crisis, The Great Depression, Commonwealth Bank of Australia, State-Owned Banks, Sovereign Debt Crisis, Politics News
Ellen Brown

Nearly a century ago, the Commonwealth Bank of Australia demonstrated that banks do not actually need capital to make loans -- so long as their credit is backed by the government.

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The Grapes of Wrath Revisited

Lynn Parramore | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: BP Oil Spill 2010, The Great Depression, Grapes of Wrath, Gulf Oil Spill, Corporations, Dust Bowl, Business News
Lynn Parramore

It's time for a new Steinbeck. And we had better find her quickly, because what's coming if we don't find a new way of relating to ourselves and the world that we are all part of will make the Dust Bowl look like a tempest in a teapot.

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Are the Unemployed Causing Unemployment?

Les Leopold | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Financial Crisis, Ben Bernanke, The Great Depression, Wall Street Bailout, Unemployment, Wall Street, Wall Street Bonuses, Business News
Les Leopold

Senator Judd Gregg thins that the way to create jobs is to get those lazy workers off the dole so that they can help lower wages across the economy. Interesting theory, but it doesn't apply to this planet.

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DK Matai | Posted 05.25.2011

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DK Matai

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Glenn Beck Is Right to Fear Dorothy Day

Jim O'Grady | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Anti-Semitism, The Catholic Worker, The Great Depression, Demagoguery, J. Edgar Hoover, Jim Wallis, The Radio Priest, American Catholicism, Fr. Charles Coughlin, Glenn Beck Social Justice, Francis Cardinal Spellman, Dorothy Day, Houses of Hospitality, Dorothy Day: With Love for the Poor, Religion News
Jim O'Grady

Demagogues like Coughlin and Beck use ever more shrill appeals to cause serious short-term turmoil but, in the process, turn their followers' hearts to stone. People are happier, Day believed, when they are good.

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DK Matai | Posted 05.25.2011

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DK Matai

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DK Matai | Posted 05.25.2011

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DK Matai | Posted 05.25.2011

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