post-Depression

You are a den of vipers and thieves…" - Andrew Jackson, President of the United States Report Abuse "The Kansas City Fed chief called for "Glass Steagall-type" provisions -- referring to post-Depression prohibitions that forbade deposit-taking commercial banks from engaging in the riskier activities normally confined to the investment sector."

Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion 2011

But if the Fed's blaming the last recession on the financial meltdown from the subprime mortgage market, why is it so committed to recreating those same credit conditions that spawned Wall Street's worst-ever post-Depression crash?

Jeffrey Rubin: Will the Fed's Zero Rate Policy Bring Another Speculative Bubble? Jeffrey Rubin 2010

There has been a great debate in the economics world for decades — especially post-Depression — about the efficacy of government spending in a troubled economy.

Matthew Yglesias » Slash and Burn 2009

There has been a great debate in the economics world for decades — especially post-Depression — about the efficacy of government spending in a troubled economy.

Matthew Yglesias » Slash and Burn 2009

As unions were the catalyst that created the post-Depression middle-class, and given that the modern middle-class is as about as anemic as it was during the Gilded Age that preceded the Great Depression, it would seem that Congress might finally reverse its misguided alliance with anti-labor business interests and begin to do the work their constituents need to thrive.

March 17th, 2009 r_urell 2009

The tax rate on corporate profits is also hovering near a post-Depression low.

Dean Baker: Getting Those Republican Attacks Right Dean Baker 2011

But if the Fed's blaming the last recession on the financial meltdown from the subprime mortgage market, why is it so committed to recreating those same credit conditions that spawned Wall Street's worst-ever post-Depression crash?

Jeffrey Rubin: Will the Fed's Zero Rate Policy Bring Another Speculative Bubble? Jeffrey Rubin 2010

Moreover, the home-ownership rate is the lowest since 1965 and foreclosures are at a post-Depression high.

The Obama Presidency by the Numbers Michael J. Boskin 2011

In these charged, uncertain times, we'd do well to recall the lessons of the post-Depression 1930s.

Mike Signer: Stop the Violence: Taking on Today's Demagogues 2010

This led to constitutionally imposed debt limits and other controls imposed by voters which kept political opportunism in reasonable check through most of the post-Depression decades.

Municipal Debt Has A Very Long History 2010