great depression

Hey guys I need some help. I am looking for some sources for a paper I am writing for an business class. My topic centers around what the government did during the Great Depression or what Japan did during their lost decade and what our current government is doing now to get us out of our Great...

Mises Daily: Friday, October 30, 2009 by Robert P. Murphy Fort Knox Paul Krugman has concentrated his fire recently on those "thumping their chests" over the falling dollar. He has particular scorn for those recommending a return to the gold standard. In Krugman's view, a simple look at the...

Bernanke's Great Lie - The 'Gold Standard' and the Great Depression The claim that the "gold standard" caused or worsened the Great Depression debunked. liberty (If you like this article, a more formal paper version of this article may be downloaded here. Please distribute if you see fit.)...

The U.S. junk bond default rate rose to 10.2 percent in August from 9.4 percent in July as the worst recession since the 1930s left more companies unable to pay off debt, Standard & Poor's data showed on Thursday. The default rate is expected to rise to 13.9 percent by July 2010 and could reach...

The truth will out! http://www.marketwatch.com/story/bernanke-explains-crisis-to-average-americans-2009-07-26

http://www.prisonplanet.com/paulson-threatened-great-depression-food-riots-to-get-bailout-bill-passed.html

http://financialsense.com/editorials/droke/2009/0629.html Bernanke on the Great Depression by Clif Droke June 29, 2009 A major result of last year’s credit storm is a lingering sense of dread and foreboding among investors. Many are waiting for the proverbial “other shoe to drop” as the...

http://www.wnd.com/index.php?pageId=59405 Bernanke: Federal Reserve caused Great Depression Fed chief says, 'We did it. … very sorry, won't do it again' By David Kupelian © 2009 WorldNetDaily Despite the varied theories espoused by many establishment economists, it was none other than the...

I've been reading Friedman's, "Monetary History of the US" he seems to say as if there was deflation, however, it seems to clash with the Austrians opinion that it was inflation. Am I getting it right, was it inflation or deflation during the great depression?

http://hnn.us/blogs/entries/81087.html YouTube - Lessons from the Great Depression

Great New DEPRESSION YouTube - Great New DEPRESSION Seeing all this people in tents and having seen videos of US cities full of empty new houses makes me think how much bullshit comes from the central planners in Washintgton. They want power to steal, not to planify for the good of the people...

Presented by Thomas E. Woods, Jr., at "The Great Depression: What We Can Learn From It Today," http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=czcUmnsprQI a related article http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig4/powell-jim4.html America’s Greatest Depression Fighter (No, it wasn’t Franklin Delano Roosevelt)...

Great Depression vs. 'Great Recession' Got to love the stats in here, especially the Emergency Spending Programs one. I think it might be a bit off. Financial Rescue Nears GDP as Pledges Top $12.8 Trillion

Were banks/Wall Street bailed out during the Great Depression? I know that hundreds of banks failed after the stock market crash, but were banks/Wall Street eventually propped up/bailed out by FDR? I think the creation of the FDIC could be considered a bailout.

Title says it all. What was it doing during the great depression, did it propel the downturn? create the bubble? I am writing an essay on ending the fed, any info. would help :cool:

This article by the Foundation for Economic Education is amazing. It parallels the fall of Rome to today (Economically of Course) Great Read. http://fee.org/articles/rome-great-depression/

http://www.smartmoney.com/Investing/Stocks/15-Great-Investments-From-the-Great-Depression/

http://www.greatdepressioncooking.com/Depression_Cooking/Episodes.html This is the best thing besides RP on Youtube.

I got into an argument with friends about what it was that ended The Great Depression. Of course, they think it was the war that got us out. I asked them how it is that war, which is essentially destructive, could be responsible for leading us into an age of unprecedented prosperity. In my mind...

... And is trying to link, crazily enough, that to the problems we have now. I honestly don't know much about the Great Depression and what lead to it, but could I make a rebuttal to this?