The Great Beer Parade Stimulus of 1932 - Bloomberg
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 Bloomberg | The Great Beer Parade Stimulus of 1932 Bloomberg Luckily, during the Great Depression, anti-Prohibitionists had an economic argument. Defiant “drys” mocked “wet” schemes to refloat the economy by legalizing beer with low alcohol content and taxing it, which they said would create jobs for craftsmen, ... |
Published on Tuesday 22nd of May 2012 12:07:04 AM
Our Great Depression in Numbers - BullionVault
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Our Great Depression in Numbers BullionVault TGR: You compared that to the Great Depression in your presentation. John Williams: During the Great Depression, the estimated unemployment rate peaked in 1933 at 25%. But that included 27% of the population living and working on farms. The Recovery Is an Illusion: John Williams |
Published on Tuesday 22nd of May 2012 12:07:04 AM
we won't cope with the next depression - Sydney Morning Herald (blog)
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we won't cope with the next depression Sydney Morning Herald (blog) In the hundred and thirty-nine years before the Great Depression, New South Wales produced just four millionaires. I remember coming across that striking little factoid somewhere during the research for Leviathan. That's not a lot of lolly for a colony ... |
Published on Tuesday 22nd of May 2012 12:07:04 AM
Bringing Back Glass-Steagall Would Rebuild Shattered Confidence In Wall Street - Forbes
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 Forbes | Bringing Back Glass-Steagall Would Rebuild Shattered Confidence In Wall Street Forbes It was the worst financial catastrophe the country has ever experienced and preceded the Great Depression. It was clear that financial firms had become too big, too powerful, and too greedy. To prevent it from ever happening again, in 1933 Congress ... Letter: Glass-Steagall reinstatement a must for economic prosperity |
Published on Tuesday 22nd of May 2012 12:07:04 AM
Golden Gate Bridge: 75 years - San Jose Mercury News
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 Sydney Morning Herald | Golden Gate Bridge: 75 years San Jose Mercury News When it opened May 27, 1937, the Golden Gate Bridge provided the country -- weary from the Great Depression and worried about rising talk of war -- with one final, majestic projection of its Manifest Destiny. Here was a bridge not just for transport, ... Happy (Almost) Anniversary 75th birthday celebration for the Golden Gate Bridge The Seven Man-Made Wonders of California |
Published on Tuesday 22nd of May 2012 12:07:04 AM
Health of housing stock is up for debate - Buffalo News
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Health of housing stock is up for debate Buffalo News But experts have been privy for many years to information about housing in 1940, when ramped-up war production finally brought an end to the Great Depression. What was it like? Well, 18 percent of housing was in need of major repair. |
Published on Tuesday 22nd of May 2012 12:07:04 AM
Smack! The BRICs Hit a Wall of Their Own Making - The Atlantic
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 The Atlantic | Smack! The BRICs Hit a Wall of Their Own Making The Atlantic We can thank Western policymakers who stared into the abyss of a second Great Depression and threw just enough money at our problems -- and developing markets that powered us through the slump. But now both of those are looking less true. |
Published on Tuesday 22nd of May 2012 12:07:04 AM
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