US Birth Rate Lowest in History - AllGov


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US Birth Rate Lowest in History
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We saw that in the Great Depression the 1930s and we're seeing that in the Great Recession today,” Andrew Cherlin, a sociology professor at Johns Hopkins ...
Declining Birth Rate: Another Reason to Hate the Bad Economy The Stir (blog)
Birth Rate Declining in US, Thanks to Recession TopNews United Kingdom (blog)
US Birth Rate Not Recession-proof: Declines for Second Year HealthNews
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LIRR Service to Return to Normal - New York Times

LIRR Service to Return to Normal
New York Times
... trains and altered connections, underscoring the fragility of a mass transit system still dependent on technology developed before the Great Depression. ...

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Stocks may be ready for rebound as bulls retreat - USA Today

Stocks may be ready for rebound as bulls retreat
USA Today
That's the most feeble reading since March 5, 2009, or two trading sessions before the worst stock plunge since the Great Depression ended. ...

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Economists agree: Stimulus created nearly 3 million jobs - USA Today

Economists agree: Stimulus created nearly 3 million jobs
USA Today
A recent study by two prominent economists generally agrees, crediting the pump-priming with averting "what could gave been called Great Depression 2.0. ...
Perriello steps in it yet again GoDanRiver.com

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Depression-Era Fun in the Stock Market - Resource Investor

Depression-Era Fun in the Stock Market
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The Great Depression, of course, was finally becoming faint memory, as was its record of destroying stockholders while handing deflationary gains to ...

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Monetarists Follow Milton Friedman to Grave: Caroline Baum - Bloomberg


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Monetarists Follow Milton Friedman to Grave: Caroline Baum
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The former Princeton professor and Great Depression scholar told the audience that the US government has a technology called a “printing press” that “allows ...
What can be done to fix the economy? St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Helicopter Ben Bernanke Says Everything Is Going To Be Okay Benzinga
"I was wrong again!" What Ben Bernanke meant to say Salon
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LETTER: Repeating Bush policies will hinder recovery - The Tennessean

LETTER: Repeating Bush policies will hinder recovery
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Moreover, we tried tax-cutting our way out of a recession during Bush's first term; the result was the longest jobless recovery since the Great Depression. ...
Tax cut expiration has broad impact The Detroit News
Examiner Editorial: Think the economy is bad? Worse is coming San Francisco Examiner
Bush Tax Cuts to Expire. PocketFives.com (blog)

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Our Blue-Collar Great Depression - Wall Street Journal

Our Blue-Collar Great Depression
Wall Street Journal
To put this number into context, consider this: During the Great Depression of 1929-33, total employment is estimated to have fallen by slightly more than ...
Striking similarities between Great Depression & today? CNN (blog)
David Rosenberg: We're In A Depression, Not A Recession Huffington Post (blog)
Are We Now in a Depression? Seeking Alpha (blog)
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Flying blind - Asia Times Online

Flying blind
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June 30, 2010 - "The cause of the Great Depression in the 1930s, and the Great Recession beginning in 2007, was one and the same: an overleveraged economy. ...

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Why We Need a Second Stimulus - New York Times


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Why We Need a Second Stimulus
New York Times
... we are in serious danger of failing to do the right things to help the economy recover from its worst labor market crisis since the Great Depression. ...
Twilight of American century Mail & Guardian Online
Blame Bush, or blame Obama? Either way, fixing it won't come anytime soon Vallejo Times-Herald

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