How can we get back to that marvelous age of the ’50s with its amazing economic growth, low unemployment, great equality of incomes and world supremacy? The answer is: suffer through a slump that lasts a decade and that scars every American…….click here to continue reading
Tropical Depression Ramon weakened as it makes landfall in Southern Leyte at 6:00 a.m. this morning, October 12, 2011, according to the latest bulletin of the Philippine Atmospheric and Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA). Tropical Depression Ramon was spotted at 30 km Northeast of Roxas City as of 10:00 a.m. this morning with maximum ……click here to continue reading
Echoes of the Great Depression may be seen in the pitiful conditions faced by many workers around the world today. This is a photo exhibit, using Dorothea Lange’s photos from the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl of the 1930s juxtaposed against contemporary photos from California. Same conditions, different faces – all trying to eke [Read more]……click here to continue reading
Despite the mass poverty, the U.S. was quietly making tremendous progress in the 1930s, says David Leonhardt in The New York Times. Not this time……click here to continue reading
Homeownership rate falls from 66.2 percent to 65.1 percent in the past decade. Homeownership gap between whites and blacks is biggest since 1960…….click here to continue reading
Dementia and depression are two of the most common psychiatric conditions among older adults and telling the difference can be difficult for most people. Yet coming up with the correct diagnosis is critical to managing symptoms and helping older adults maintain their quality of life…….click here to continue reading
Even when unemployment was very high during the Depression, we were making great technological progress. Now, we suffer from stagnation in business and education…….click here to continue reading
The American dream of homeownership has felt its biggest drop since the Great Depression, according to new 2010 census figures released Thursday…….click here to continue reading
YORK — Clinical depression is more than having a bad day or coping with the loss of a relative or even a favorite pet…….click here to continue reading
“An economic depression occurs only once it becomes painfully obvious that the markets and economy are failing to respond to repeated bouts of policy stimulus,” says economist David Rosenberg…….click here to continue reading