great depression

The Great Depression taught savings- the Great Recession teaches speculation 20:00- 21:50 discussion how the stock market continues to rise on any news, good news, no news or bad news. The stock market is viewed as a barometer for the health of the economy. The current stock market is based on...

Adask on Forbes: “Link Dollar to Gold or face Great Depression II” Two videos in Link one is Ron Paul the other is Steve Forbes http://adask.wordpress.com/2014/06/06/forbes-link-dollar-to-gold-or-face-great-depression-ii/#more-22685 Steve Forbes (Forbes Magazine) recently warned that...

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/scary-1929-market-chart-gains-traction-2014-02-11 So, I know many say -- just ride it out, cause it will rise again and you'll make back your money etc.... just like this last time. BUT, why wouldn't one move their 401k into a more stable place until the...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNfUscKPC5g The government engineered the great depression.

h/t: http://nalert.blogspot.com/2013/01/ron-paul-on-rothbard-and-great.html

For those who know more about economics than I do, I saw a video of Milton Friedman discussing the Great Depression and the Federal Reserve's role in it, and he was saying that it is not the proper job of the Federal Reserve to control interest rates, but it is the Fed's job to control the...

"Milton Friedman's writings contend the terrible contraction of the 30s was caused by tight money and worsened by the gold standard. His explanation is more plausible than it being attributable to a credit expansion and subsequent collapse. Federal Reserve Board Governor Bernanke agreed (FRB...

... is the conclusion my University textbook came to as the last sentences of the Great Depression chapter. "Keynes had been right. Increases in workers rights and public salaries in 1934 and 35 to their pre-depression levels helped." "The subsidized construction of houses pumped money into...

Wow, a must read. It turns out that McFadden died suddenly in 1936 in NYC due to food poisoning, I wonder why. http://www.afn.org/~govern/mcfadden_speech_1932.html Concluding Paragraphs: I think, after a century, we have finally found our man. Thank God.

Hi, Peter Schiff references that only "2% of deposits were actually lost in the Great Depression." I'd like to know the source for this - thanks to anyone who can provide the reference. Brian

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The American dream of homeownership has felt its biggest drop since the Great Depression, according to new 2010 census figures released Thursday. The analysis by the Census Bureau found the homeownership rate fell to 65.1 percent last year. While that level remains the second...

I was having an argument with a friend over "jobs". He was saying how technological advancement, to a certain extent, is bad for the economy when it puts people out of work. Examples would be a machine that makes coats, putting tailors that make them by hand out of work; or a computer that...

Just wondering what others thought of this video. I thought that it sounded pretty reasonable, but some of the comments on the page seem to indicate something opposite to my thinking. (I have no idea if "Myth #1" is accurate - I'm pretty much economically illiterate.) Comments copied from...

I love these short videos. Good for spreading the truth... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QLoeehMw0w&feature=feedu

http://www.cnbc.com/id/43395857

(CNN) – President Barack Obama's overall approval rating has dropped below 50 percent as a growing number of Americans worry that the U.S. is likely to slip into another Great Depression within the next 12 months, according to a new national poll. A CNN/Opinion Research Corporation poll...

Cnn: Nearly half of americans expect another ‘great depression’ in next 12 months http://www.theblaze.com/stories/cnn-nearly-half-of-american-expect-another-great-depression-in-next-12-months/