Is this recession another Great Depression?

Is it coming to a soup kitchen near you? Here's how we'll know if the current recession is turning into something much worse.

... we could get there. In fact, it would be all too easy. All we have to do is ignore what the markets and other economic indicators are telling us right now and continue down the disastrous path we've been merrily skipping along for the last 25 or so years. Want to see "The Great Depression: The Sequel"? Here's a handy three-step do-it-yourself action plan. Full Story »

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Dwight Rousu
4.4
by Dwight Rousu - Oct. 1, 2008

The article captures the income disparity and "kill government regulation" causative factors of our current risky economic system. The perils of continuation of such a set of policies are pointed out. As an editor's choice letter says: Arthur Miller in his autobiography 'Timebends' said that in his opinion America is utterly invested in forgetting, and nowhere is this more evident than in their forgetting of the Great Depression.

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4.5
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