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President Barack Obama signed the ARRA into law on February 17, 2009. Vice President Joe Biden stood directly behind him.
A New New Deal Must Be For All
Dorothea Lange's Migrant Mother depicts destitute pea pickers in California, centering on Florence Owens Thompson, age 32, a mother of seven children, in Nipomo, California, March 1936.
Another Great Depression?
photo of FDR.
Picking Up Where FDR Left Off
American Union Bank, New York City. April 26, 1932.
The Bailout: A Far Cry from Socialism
Whig cartoon showing the effects of unemployment on a family that has portraits of Democratic Presidents Andrew Jackson and Martin Van Buren on the wall.
The Bank Crisis Blame Game, Then and Now
King Capital, caricature by the Slovenian graphic artist and illustrator Hinko Smrekar (first half of the 20th century).
Why Business Loves Laissez Faire
"The Bosses of the Senate" (1889). Reformers like the cartoonist Joseph Keppler depicted the Senate as controlled by the giant moneybags, who represented the nation's financial trusts and monopolies.
The Dreary Science Meets Politics
Fidel Castro during a visit to Washington.
Why Economic Sanctions Often Fail
A home for sale in Columbus, OH. Picture by the author.
(Fore)Closing on the American Dream
The Kenya flag.
Beyond 'Tribes': Violence and Politics in Kenya
J.P. Morgan
Time (Yet Again) for Preventative Regulation
President Harry Truman in 1945.
Can This Election Produce Another Hundred Days?
Russian President (soon to be Prime Minister) Vladimir Putin
After Putin? Russia's Presidential Elections
Russian President (soon to be Prime Minister) Vladimir Putin
Apres Poutine ? Les Elections Presidentielles Russes
A foreclosure sign in front of a home
Avoiding Market Meltdowns
A KFC in Hanoi, Vietnam
Kentucky Fried Globalization
A Marine Corps M1 Abrams tank patrols a Baghdad street after its fall in 2003 during Operation Iraqi Freedom.
Who Will Pay for Iraq and When?
Henry Ford with a Model T in 1921.
What Bill Ford Is Learning from Great-Grandpa
Photo of a healthcare worker holding an elderly person's hand.
Ducking Out on Retiree Benefits
A Mobil gas station in 1982.
A Case for Gasoline Price Controls
European Union flag fluttering in the wind.
Europe Already Has a Working Constitution
President George W. Bush sitting at his desk in 2001.
Social Security: False Crisis, Destructive Solutions
George W. Bush at the White House in 2003.
Can Bush out-Hoover Hoover?
Hessian troops surrendering to General George Washington after the Battle of Trenton.
The Return of the Mercenary