Tag: Great Depression

Wars are unhealthy for economies and other living things. Shooting wars are unhealthy, trade wars are unhealthy, race wars are ...

The attitude of bankers toward money today reminds me of the famous Lincoln saying before Antietam. "General McClellan, if you ...

Anyone who wants to run a pirate bank should be allowed to do so. But not here. If you want ...

It may be George W. Bush's greatest achievement -- the utter destruction of the party of Lincoln, of Teddy Roosevelt, ...

We are responsible for what happens. We can't pass it off to any small set of individuals, to any grand ...

When leaders fail, the people suffer. The economy is already rolling over

The capitalist system now faces the greatest threat we have seen since the 1930s. As the housing bust devours the ...

The big story of 2007, the one which no one sees, is a growing estrangement between establishment businesses and the ...

You'll know when we get into a real war. You'll know when we're all called to sacrifice, to give up ...

Everything Bernanke has learned will tell him to maintain liquidity in the face of inflation. He won't raise interest rates ...