HNN Hot Topics: Financial Meltdown (Sept. 15 to Oct. 15, 2008)

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• Eric Rauchway: In Defense of the New Deal
  

• New Deal Network (The Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute (FERI) and the Institute for Learning Technologies (ILT) at Columbia University)
  

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Commentary & News

• James Livingston: Their Great Depression and Ours ... Part 2
  

• Douglas M. Charles: What We Can Learn from Hamilton & Another “Bail Out”
  

• Democrats’ plan: New Deal 2.0?
  

• U.S. Intervention in Banking Industry Is Bold, but Has a Basis in History
  

• Gil Troy: Channeling Cheney: Did Obama Overcompensate with Biden?
  

• Lessons from the 1929 stock market crash
  

• Economics professor: Blames meltdown on decision to increase homeownership
  

• John Steele Gordon: Why our system is prone to panics
  

• Scarred by past woes, Japan sees U.S. bailout as a first step
  

• FDR's policies prolonged Depression by 7 years, UCLA economists calculate
  

• James Livingston: Their Great Depression and Ours: Part I
  

• Dean Baker: Statement on Congressional Approval of Bailout
  

• Alan Wolfe: Why The Economic Crisis Won't Transform America
  

• Niall Ferguson: The End of Prosperity?
  

• Alan Brinkley: 'In My Lifetime I Have Seen Nothing That Resembles The 1930s More Than The Present Moment'
  

• Steve Fraser: Wall Street's Comeback as the Place Americans Love to Hate
  

• Jacob Heilbrunn: Worse Than Hoover
  

• Jonathan Soffer: Lessons for Today’s Mortgage Crisis
  

• Scott Reynolds Nelson: The depression of 1929 is the wrong model for the current economic crisis
  

• Jeffrey Hummel: U.S. Government Default: Good, Bad, or Just Plain Ugly? Comment on Cowen and Kling
  

• David Leonhardt: When Trust Vanishes, Worry
  

• Dean Baker: Why Bail? The Banks Have a Gun Pointed at Their Head and Are Threatening to Pull
  

• Robert S. McElvaine: Their Party Crashed. Ours May Too.
  

• Historian says WaMu failure not the biggest in US history
  

• Stanley I. Kutler: They Claim the Bailout Is Necessary, But Is It Constitutional?
  

• Robert J. Samuelson: Is Paulson the New Nixon?
  

• Repeat of 30’s Depression unlikely, historian says
  

• James Grant: Since 1971, nothing has stood behind the American dollar and now foreigners are changing their mind about its value
  

• Eric Rauchway: How big a bailout?
  

• Jeff Biggers: Wall Street Under Oath ... What Have We Learned?
  

• Robert Brent Toplin: The Parallel with 1929 We Ignore at Our Peril
  

• Geoffrey Wansell: So what can we learn from the Crash of 1929 to avoid a 21st Century Great Depression?
  

• Juliet Chung: Brief history of debt
  

• Margaret Atwood: Debtor's Prism
  

• Tristram Hunt: Groundhog capitalism
  

• Looking for Lessons From Agency That Mopped Up 1980s Thrift
  

• Tossing Aside History, Conventions and a Few Cliches
  

• $$ Crisis: Japanese history holds lessons for U.S. policy makers
  

• Geoffrey Wansell: So what can we learn from the Crash of 1929 to avoid a 21st Century Great Depression?
  

• Harold James: History provides little comfort
  

• Steve Fraser: The End of a Gilded Age
  

• Jane S. Shaw: Before the Fall
  

• E.J. Dionne, Jr.: Forget about hockey moms and Paris Hilton--the financial collapse is a stark reminder of what actually matters in this election
  

• Robert Higgs: Ticking Time Bomb Explodes, Public Is Shocked
  

• Rupert Cornwell: What was Roosevelt's New Deal, and is something like it needed today?
  

• Daniel Gross: Lehman's failure marks the end of an era