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G20, Pittsburgh and Mellon

kaiology wrote 2 months ago: Treasury Secretary Andrew Mellon in 1926, image courtesy Library of Congress As members of the G20 p … more →

Tags: Calvin Coolidge and his era, Calvin Coolidge, G20, Great Depression

Weekly Geeks - Why haven't I read this yet?5 comments

tolmsted wrote 3 months ago: This week’s Weekly Geeks asks you to choose a book that has been languishing on your bookshelf … more →

Tags: Book Discussion, The Flanders Panel, Mystery, Weekly Geeks, The Nautical Chart, Arturo Perez-Reverte, the lost city of z, David Grann, Fawcett

New Billion Dollar Crop

hempnewstv wrote 6 months ago: February 25th, 2009 As the 1914 $10 Federal Reserve Note above shows, hemp once seemed like part of … more →

Tags: Industrial Hemp, Agriculture, Consumer Textiles, biofuel, green economy, William Randolph Hearst, Dupont

Financial Crisis: 2009 Equals 1931?1 comment

parallaxbrief wrote 10 months ago: Ambrose Evans-Pritchard (pictured right) is the Stephen King of financial columnists: his articles a … more →

Tags: Economics, Economy, Crisis, banking system, Ambrose Evans Pritchard, Great Depression, 1930s, Herbert Hoover, FDR

and so we have Super Bowl XLIII...

sellingjerseys wrote 10 months ago: Arizona?  The Cardinals?  The Cardiac Cards?  This isn’t a dream.  This is a reality.  The franchise … more →

Tags: NFL, Arizona Cardinals, Pittsburgh Steelers, Kurt Warner, joe flacco, Super Bowl XXLIII, John McCain, Marketing Hype, Larry Fitzgerald

The Credit Monster

miramar24 wrote 1 year ago: I wish to pose the big question I’ve not seen any of the financial commentators asking, includ … more →

Tags: Economics, Banks, Credit Bubble, Interest Rates, Banking, deleveraging

Status report on the financial crisis: why has the treatment been so slow, so small?19 comments

Fabius Maximus wrote 1 year ago: Summary The US government has at most a few weeks to restart the nation’s financial machinery. … more →

Tags: Post-WWII era over?, Henry Paulson, Pakistan, financial crisis, rge monitor, wwii, paulson plan, Great Depression, Titanic

Book Review: The Forgotten Man1 comment

pccapitalist wrote 1 year ago: The Great Depression is something that has always been taught in history classes as the time Capital … more →

Tags: US History, capitalism, Book Reviews, Amity Shales, The Forgotten Man, FDR, The Great Depression

Consequences of a long, deep recession - part I4 comments

Fabius Maximus wrote 1 year ago: Summary:  this series speculates about the consequences of a deep and long recession over the next f … more →

Tags: Post-WWII era over?, recession, Inflation, rge monitor, Solon

Forgotten Man, The

kbooks wrote 1 year ago: “It’s difficult today to imagine how America survived the Great Depression. Only through … more →

Tags: Kindle Edition, eBooks, Great Depression, HarperCollins e-books, World War II, sam insull, new deal programs, brave leadership, economic commentators

The Forgotten Man

kbooks wrote 1 year ago: “It’s difficult today to imagine how America survived the Great Depression. Only through … more →

Tags: Kindle Edition, eBooks, Great Depression, HarperCollins e-books, World War II, sam insull, new deal programs, brave leadership, economic commentators

A happy ending to the current economic recession17 comments

Fabius Maximus wrote 1 year ago: History shows the difficulty of predicting the short-term path of economic or political events.  How … more →

Tags: Good News!, History, Post-WWII era over?, alex pollock, alexis de tocquiville, defaults, Democracy in America, Foreclosures, Herbert Hoover

The Marihuana Tax Act of 1937 and the Birth of a Synthetic Economy

ktbotanicals wrote 2 years ago:   The Marihuana Tax Act of 1937 and the Birth of a Synthetic Economy Written and Copywritten by … more →

Tags: 1937, anslinger, Bud, Cannabis, dank, DEA, Dupont, Economy, federal narcotics bureau


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