HNN Hot Topics: Financial Meltdown (Sept. 15 to Oct. 15, 2008)
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Eric Rauchway: In Defense of the New Deal
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New Deal Network (The Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute (FERI) and the Institute for Learning Technologies (ILT) at Columbia University)
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Omar Hossini: Are We Really Printing Money to Finance Our Debts?
- How would we know we are in a depression?
- Eduardo Porter: Dangers of the D-Word
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