HNN Hot Topics: Financial Meltdown (Oct. 16 to Dec. 31, 2008)

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

   

• HNN Hot Topics: The New Deal
  

   

• What Are the Origins of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae?
  

   

• What Are the Biggest Financial Scandals in U.S. History?
  

   

• Jim Powell: It's Time to Explode the Myths About the New Deal
  

   

• 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)
  

   

• Omar Hossini: Are We Really Printing Money to Finance Our Debts?
  

   

• How would we know we are in a depression?

Commentary & News

• The Global Credit Crisis as History: One historian's view
  

   

• Tyler Cowan: Bailout of Long-Term Capital ... A Bad Precedent?
  

   

• Mark Naison: Will The Recession End in June 2009 ? Who Are Economists Kidding!!
  

   

• Brian Purnell: The White-Collar Working Class: Has the American Middle Class Gone into Foreclosure?
  

   

• Robert Brent Toplin: Economics 101: Who's Up, Who's Down
  

   

• Louis Uchitelle: A Trap in Obama’s Spending Plan
  

   

• Tyler Cowan: Fiscal policy and the burden of proof
  

   

• Dick Morris: Obama's spending plan won't create enough stimulus
  

   

• Clinton Tax Break May Have Helped Cause Housing Bubble
  

   

• Robert Skidelsky: Why Keynes is the man of the year
  

   

• Paul Krugman: What to Do
  

   

• Mark Naison: Creating Opportunity Out of Tragedy- Occupying Abandoned Commercial Space Will be the Next Phase of the Civil Rights Movement
  

   

• Nelson Lichtenstein and Christopher Phelps: Chicago factory sit-in fits nation's mood
  

   

• Joseph Stiglitz: Capitalist
  

   

• WSJ: How would we know we are in a depression?
  

   

• Joshua Berman: The Bible, Home Ownership, and the Housing Crisis
  

   

• John Paul Rossi: Another Great Depression? Very Close.
  

   

• Stanley Kutler: Bailout Ballpark
  

   

• Kaneko Masaru and Andrew DeWit: The Positive and Negative Lessons of the Japanese Bubble for Americans
  

   

• Richard Striner: How Lincoln Might Fix Our Economic Mess
  

   

• Lawrence S. Wittner: How Not to Deal with the Oncoming Depression: The Case of New York State
  

   

• Mark Naison: Its Time to Use the"D" Word:"Recession" Doesn't Begin to Describe Where The US Economy
  

   

• Bernanke says crisis 'no comparison' to Great Depression
  

   

• Steve Fraser: Roosevelt's Brain Trust vs Obama's Brainiacs
  

   

• Tom Engelhardt: For it or again' it, the New Deal's the rage
  

   

• Niall Ferguson's study of the financial history of the world made him prescient about today
  

   

• Mark Naison: Any Long Term Solution to the Economic Crisis Requires Raising Wages and Redistributing Income
  

   

• Ezra Klein vs. Eric Rauchway: Is the Great Depression Relevant?
  

   

• Daniel Gross: Don't Get Depressed, It's Not 1929
  

   

• James Livingston: Saving Private Savings, or, The God That Failed
  

   

• Tyler Cowen: The New Deal Didn’t Always Work Either
  

   

• Bernard A. Weisberger: How GM Betrayed Its Founding Genius
  

   

• John B. Judis: Economists know the fatal flaw in our system--but they can't agree how to fix it
  

   

• Stephen Birmingham: When ostrich feathers were in vogue, traders thought they would remain popular forever. Fortunes were lost.
  

   

• David Beito: Paul Krugman's Prescription for Disaster (Response by Alonzo Hamby)
  

   

• Luke A. Nichter: President Obama and Bretton Woods
  

   

• Mark Naison: George Bush's Refusal to Rescue General Motors Cements His Legacy of Hardship and Pain
  

   

• Genworth Financial Wealth Management: When will the markets recover?
  

   

• Joe Nocera: 75 Years Later, a Nation Hopes for Another F.D.R.
  

   

• John Steele Gordon: Speculators, Politicians, and Financial Disasters
  

   

• Andrew M. Schocket: The Bailout ... A Far Cry from Socialism
  

   

• Jessica Leppler: The Bank Crisis Blame Game, Then and Now
  

   

• R. Taggart Murphy: Asia and the Meltdown of American Finance
  

   

• Robert S. McElvaine:"Black Tuesday" plus 79 Years
  

   

• David Kennedy: A Historian on the Lessons of the Depression
  

   

• Great Depression survivors uncertain of nation's mettle
  

   

• David Greenberg: How FDR saved capitalism in eight days
  

   

• Norman Markowitz: When Do We Say Oh Yeah to Bush and His Media Helpers?
  

   

• Maury Klein: Is it 1929 all over again?
  

   

• Robert Buzzanco: Bring Back Glass-Steagall?
  

   

• Brian M. Carney: Bernanke Is Fighting the Last War
  

   

• Bill Hobby: Before saving the nation's banks, Jesse Jones bailed out Houston
  

   

• Stephen Foley: History lessons ... Galbraith's 'The Great Crash 1929' is still essential reading today
  

   

• Fareed Zakaria: There Is a Silver Lining
  

   

• Chalmers Johnson: Back to 1932
  

   

• Tony Badger: How FDR saved US
  

   

• Tom Engelhardt: My Depression -- or Ours?
  

   

• Juan Cole: The Great Reagan Pyramid Scheme Comes Crashing Down
  

   

• Judith Stein: Crisis is the fruit of policies that encourage low wages