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The Third Depression

June 28th, 2010

There was the Long Depression, then the Great Depression, and now we are in the early stages of a third depression. This one is primarily a failure of policy…….click here to continue reading

The Great Depression

June 22nd, 2010

Copyright 2010 Larz Neilson WILMINGTON - Where does one start talking about Wilmington during the Great Depression? The day President Roosevelt closed the banks? Or should one go back to an earlier year?……click here to continue reading

Great Depression Ghosts Haunt Dem Prospects

June 13th, 2010

The ghost of the Great Depression has become eerily (more) relevant in recent months. The Depression was the confluence of two catastrophes: an economic bubble burst domestically while Europe faced a debt crisis. The September 2008 market crash brought us the former but not the latter. We now have the latter…….click here to continue reading

Chocolate and Depression: Is There a Connection?

April 26th, 2010

The more clinically depressed people become, the more chocolate they eat, a study has found. Great Depression - Mental health - Mood - Health - Disorders……click here to continue reading

The Yuan, the Dollar: Repeating the Policy Mistakes of the Great Depression (Forbes)

March 28th, 2010

We appear to be repeating the same policy mistakes that made the Great Depression so bad…….click here to continue reading

Hotel rates have biggest drop since Depression (San Francisco Chronicle)

February 26th, 2010

In 2009, hotel room rates in San Francisco and the nation suffered their biggest annual decline since the Great Depression, according to an analysis of recently released data. San Francisco’s daily average room prices fell nearly 16 percent from $190.12 in… San Francisco - Great Depression - Travel and Tourism - Hotel - History……click here to continue reading

Study: Students more stressed now than during Depression? (USA Today)

January 13th, 2010

A new study has found that five times as many high school and college students are dealing with anxiety and other mental health issues as youth of the same age who were studied in the Great Depression era…….click here to continue reading

FDR and the Great Depression to be topic at West Caldwell library (The Progress)

January 9th, 2010

WEST CALDWELL TWP. – Raymond Frey will present a PowerPoint lecture, “Nothing to Fear: FDR and the Great Depression,” at 7 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 14 at the West Caldwell Public Library at 30 Clinton Road…….click here to continue reading

Tying Tucson’s budget crisis to the Great Depression (KOLD News 13 Tuscon)

December 28th, 2009

Linking the Great Depression to the Tucson budget crisis. That’s how Tucson’s City Manager Mike Letcher began a press conference outlining his proposals for closing his $32 million budget hole…….click here to continue reading

From Great Depression to ‘bubble of a bubble’ (MalaysiaNews.net)

December 20th, 2009

What a difference a year makes. Last November, the economy was said to be on the verge of the next Great Depression, sucking the life out of a housing market that was coming off a record year in 2007……….click here to continue reading