Great Depression
The Great Beer Parade Stimulus of 1932 - Bloomberg
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![]() Bloomberg | The Great Beer Parade Stimulus of 1932 Bloomberg Luckily, during the Great Depression, anti-Prohibitionists had an economic argument. Defiant “drys” mocked “wet” schemes to refloat the economy by legalizing beer with low alcohol content and taxing it, which they said would create jobs for craftsmen, ... |
Published on Monday 21st of May 2012 11:13:31 PM
Our Great Depression in Numbers - BullionVault
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Our Great Depression in Numbers BullionVault TGR: You compared that to the Great Depression in your presentation. John Williams: During the Great Depression, the estimated unemployment rate peaked in 1933 at 25%. But that included 27% of the population living and working on farms. The Recovery Is an Illusion: John Williams |
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we won't cope with the next depression - Sydney Morning Herald (blog)
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we won't cope with the next depression Sydney Morning Herald (blog) In the hundred and thirty-nine years before the Great Depression, New South Wales produced just four millionaires. I remember coming across that striking little factoid somewhere during the research for Leviathan. That's not a lot of lolly for a colony ... |
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Bringing Back Glass-Steagall Would Rebuild Shattered Confidence In Wall Street - Forbes
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![]() Forbes | Bringing Back Glass-Steagall Would Rebuild Shattered Confidence In Wall Street Forbes It was the worst financial catastrophe the country has ever experienced and preceded the Great Depression. It was clear that financial firms had become too big, too powerful, and too greedy. To prevent it from ever happening again, in 1933 Congress ... Letter: Glass-Steagall reinstatement a must for economic prosperity |
Published on Monday 21st of May 2012 11:13:31 PM
Golden Gate Bridge: 75 years - San Jose Mercury News
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![]() Sydney Morning Herald | Golden Gate Bridge: 75 years San Jose Mercury News When it opened May 27, 1937, the Golden Gate Bridge provided the country -- weary from the Great Depression and worried about rising talk of war -- with one final, majestic projection of its Manifest Destiny. Here was a bridge not just for transport, ... Happy (Almost) Anniversary 75th birthday celebration for the Golden Gate Bridge The Seven Man-Made Wonders of California |
Published on Monday 21st of May 2012 11:13:31 PM
Health of housing stock is up for debate - Buffalo News
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Health of housing stock is up for debate Buffalo News But experts have been privy for many years to information about housing in 1940, when ramped-up war production finally brought an end to the Great Depression. What was it like? Well, 18 percent of housing was in need of major repair. |
Published on Monday 21st of May 2012 11:13:31 PM
Smack! The BRICs Hit a Wall of Their Own Making - The Atlantic
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![]() The Atlantic | Smack! The BRICs Hit a Wall of Their Own Making The Atlantic We can thank Western policymakers who stared into the abyss of a second Great Depression and threw just enough money at our problems -- and developing markets that powered us through the slump. But now both of those are looking less true. |
Published on Monday 21st of May 2012 11:13:31 PM
Hedge Funds Rebuild Euro Bear Bets on Greek Exit Banks Weigh - San Francisco Chronicle
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![]() Telegraph.co.uk | Hedge Funds Rebuild Euro Bear Bets on Greek Exit Banks Weigh San Francisco Chronicle May 21 (Bloomberg) -- The euro has weathered the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression, bailouts of Greece, Ireland and Portugal, and falling interest rates. Now, investors are betting like never before that a Greek exit would be too much ... Slow Bank Run Now, Bubble Next Will the New York Times' Reporters ever admit that European Austerity is the ... AUD/USD The Australian dollar continues to tumble |
Published on Monday 21st of May 2012 11:13:31 PM
Beginning to End the Great Recession - Enterprise Irregulars
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![]() Enterprise Irregulars | Beginning to End the Great Recession Enterprise Irregulars So is David Cameron, Prime minister of Great Britain though not as much. Merkel has an election looming and both have been caught on the wrong side of the most important political-economic issue of the generation, the continuing depression and ... |
Published on Monday 21st of May 2012 11:13:31 PM
Two Cheers for Our Peculiar Politics: America's Political Process and the ... - Brookings Institution
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Two Cheers for Our Peculiar Politics: America's Political Process and the ... Brookings Institution With unemployment approaching 25 percent, Spain seems headed for a depression. Meanwhile, the US economy was on its way to recovery through 2011, and at least posted a 2.2 percent rate of growth in the first quarter of this year. Could it be that, ... |
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