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    Middle Class: “Help, I’m MELTING!”

    JUNE 14, 2012 8:35AM

    By Steve Klingaman


    Topics: politics, economy, joseph stiglitz, the price of inequality: how today's divided society endangers our future, fed survey, economic meltdown, middle class, loss of net worth, democracy now, amy goodman, jamie dimon, great recession, great depression

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    • 8 Ratings
    • 1641 Views
    • 8 Comments
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    Democrats expected to do GOP's dirty work for it

    MAY 29, 2012 6:24AM

    By Ted Frier


    Topics: politics, economics, republican party, democratic party, president obama, mitt romney, politifact, pants on fire liar, fedeal spending, tea party, deficits, joan walsh, american enterprise institute, ann coulter, wall street journal, david frum, fiscal austerity, economic crisis, herbert hoover, great depression, paul krugman, fiscal stimulus, conservative principles

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    • 56 Ratings
    • 3196 Views
    • 85 Comments
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    Real Patriots Don’t Whine About Paying Taxes

    NOVEMBER 9, 2010 2:02PM

    By Kent Pitman


    Topics: making under, making less than, tax cuts for the rich, tax cuts for the wealthy, great depression, depression, 1929, hoover, depression, republican, democratic, sunset provision, sunset, expire, expiring, lower class, middle class, quarter of a million, quarter million, 250 thousand, 000, $250, $250k, egtrra, economic growth and tax relief reconciliation act of 2001, bush tax cuts, tax cuts, byrd rule, taxes, politics

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    • 17 Ratings
    • 8663 Views
    • 25 Comments
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    Double Dip: Will We Repeat 1937?

    MARCH 4, 2010 8:38AM

    By Steve Klingaman


    Topics: federal deficit, does pursuit of self-interest improve society?, john reed, john bogle, keynesians, paul volker, economic meltdown, mortgage crisis, foreclosures, unemployment, jobs, bill clinton, disenfranchised patriots, glass-steagall, jim bunning, wayback machine, sarah palin, mitt romney, ron paul, tim pawlenty, goldman sachs, bank bailouts, aig, tea party, cato institute, tarp, stimulus, commonwealth club of california, andrew leonard, larry summers, barack obama, nobel laureate in economics, dr. joseph stiglitz, recession of 1937, roosevelt, wpa, great depression, double dip recession, business, politics, finance, economics, roosevelt recession of 1937

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    • 36 Ratings
    • 12576 Views
    • 65 Comments
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    Hated Roosevelt, Hate Obama: Paleoconservative Persuasions

    NOVEMBER 5, 2009 10:11AM

    By Steve Klingaman


    Topics: belief/religion, politics, albert jay nock, our enemy-the state, republican talking points, great depression, opposition to roosevelt, glen beck, michele bachmann, sarah palin, rush limbaugh, barack obama, cato institute, anarcho-capitalists, anarcho-libertarians, libertarian, frank chodorov, murray rothbard, william f. buckley jr., ayn rand, paleoconservatism, neocon, statism, anti-statism, conservative, praise god but get even, franz oppenheimer, conservatism, right wing, economic bailout, economic meltdown, “great recession”, herbert spencer

    • Editor's Pick
    • 1 Ratings
    • 1007 Views
    • 8 Comments
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    “When Will My Portfolio Be Made Whole?” Part 1

    FEBRUARY 26, 2009 1:23PM

    By Steve Klingaman


    Topics: meltdown, recession, great depression, retirement, stock market, economy, news, business

    • Editor's Pick
    • 26 Ratings
    • 14518 Views
    • 31 Comments
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    Hard times? Not so much

    DECEMBER 26, 2008 9:02PM

    By emma peel


    Topics: economic recession, great depression, oregon, farming, sub-prime mortgages, saskatchewan, canda, family history, billie holiday

    • Editor's Pick
    • 18 Ratings
    • 6621 Views
    • 28 Comments
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    Fox: "Historians Pretty Much Agree" FDR Hurt the Economy

    DECEMBER 25, 2008 1:23PM

    By David Sirota


    Topics: fox news, franklin roosevelt, great depression, new deal

    • Editor's Pick
    • 9 Ratings
    • 1856 Views
    • 5 Comments
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    Hard Times

    DECEMBER 4, 2008 6:31PM

    By overworkedtiredandnumb


    Topics: great depression, depression, mothers, daughters, death

    • Editor's Pick
    • 1 Ratings
    • 658 Views
    • 0 Comments
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    In Thrall of Banking Crisis, Recession Needs Redefinition

    OCTOBER 29, 2008 11:42AM

    By J.E. Robertson


    Topics: great depression, recession, politics, economy, real estate bubble, foreclosures, mortgage crisis, mortgage meltdown

    • Editor's Pick
    • 13 Ratings
    • 1983 Views
    • 17 Comments
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    Depression Cake #1: Recipe

    OCTOBER 1, 2008 2:26AM

    By Marco Siegel-Acevedo


    Topics: great depression, depression culture, food, recipe

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