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Living in Wartime
Photographs from the Depression
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New 9/11 photos from above
Heartbreaking. Still. Always. From CNN.com.
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Greenbie’s vitals
Google sure comes in handy! I was wondering when (or if) Greenbie had died. Here are her vitals:
Born: August 4, 1891
Died: January, 1976 in Penobscot, Maine.
It isn’t clear from the citation whether she’s buried here but the “nearest” cemetery is listed as:
Alton Cemetery, Penobscot, Maine
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Do You Know What Keeps Glenn Beck up at night?
Just read this Freakonomics article in the NY Times and listened to a short Freakonomics Radio clip of Stephen Dubner interviewing Glenn Beck. I don’t know if Beck and I see eye to eye on the subject of this blog. I imagine we would. I’d like to find out for sure.
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America is not yet lost
Paul Krugman echoes a lot of my thoughts about the dysfunctional Congress.
We’ve always known that America’s reign as the world’s greatest nation would eventually end. But most of us imagined that our downfall, when it came, would be something grand and tragic.
It seems Sen. Shelby of Alabama:
has now placed a hold on all outstanding Obama [...]
Which side are you on?
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Experiencing furloughs
In California many state workers have been put on “furlough”. These forced days “off” are accompanied by a reduction in pay. Though temporary, they are particularly difficult for those with lots of obligations. It’s a relative, right? Someone pulling down $600,000 a year with multiple mortgages, loans, and college tuition for several kids might find [...]
The Great Depression analogy
Over at The Atlantic, Megan McArdle had this to say about the analogy between the current recession and the Great Depression.
I don’t want to push the Great Depression analogy too far, but what’s surprising when you go back to primary sources from 1930 is the optimism. I don’t mean to imply that everyone thinks things [...]
Score one for frugality
No inaugural bash as usual for University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
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Lessons of the Great Depression
Harvard Economic professor Robert Barro on lessons from the Great Depression. He’s interviewed by the website, The Browser.
B: I thought that the Great Depression was the ultimate cautionary tale on the dangers of protectionism. That’s not the case?
RB: No I think what is much clearer is the role of the financial system and the credit [...]
Prepare for the unknown by studying how others in the past have coped with the unforeseeable and the unpredictable.
-- George S. Patton