The following experts have – at some point during the last 2 years – said that the economic crisis could be worse than the Great Depression:Fed Chairman Ben BernankeFormer Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan (and see this and this)Former Fed Chairman Paul Volc…
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Underneath the Happy Talk, Is This As Bad as the Great Depression?
December 29th, 2010 |
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Is Unemployment as Bad as During the Great Depression?
October 25th, 2010 |
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It is difficult to compare current unemployment with that during the Great Depression. In the Depression, unemployment numbers weren’t tracked very consistently, and the U-3 and U-6 statistics we use today weren’t used back then. And statistical “ad…
Volcker: Raise Taxes to Curb the Deficit
April 7th, 2010 |
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Paul Volcker says that the U.S. will probably need to raise taxes to curb the deficit.Specifically, at a speech to the New York Historical Society, Volcker said that America should consider imposing a “value added tax” – a type of national sales tax us…
Carlos A. Ball: Four Reasons for Hope on LGBT Rights and the Obama Administration
July 13th, 2009 |
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I want to find reasons to still believe that the Obama Administration will do the right thing for LGBT people, and do it relatively soon.