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New New Deal or Old New Deal; Neither Promote Economic Growth!!

The following author shows the parallels of the "new" deal Barack Obama offers and the old new deal of FDR. As in the days of FDR, Obama's plan would do exactly what FDR's did to the economy; make it...

Is the Democrat Party Breaking up?

There is a very good article in the American Spectator, by William Tucker, about the internal trouble the Democrat Party is having with it's coalition members....

Writers and artists in the New Deal.

In the period of the New Deal writers and artists were also put to work to write guildebooks to cities and states, or to paint the walls of pubblic buildings. However, Rooslvelt's New Deal would not...

This U.S. President introduced the "New Deal" to bring the country out of the Gr

This U.S. President introduced the "New Deal" to bring the country out of the Great Depression ...Do you know his name?

The Myth That The New Deal Worked

Jonah Goldberg in the most recent issue of the Claremont Review of Books looks at a Amity Shlaes's The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression. Amity delves into the myth that the New...

Fascism Ain't What It Used To Be

Think we've been deprived of our civil liberties for the past 7 years? Think again. We haven't a clue what it was like in the good old days of FDR and the NRA...no not the gun guys, the New Deal guys...

New takes on the New Deal

There's a really interesting Econoblog this week featuring Arnold Kling and Brad DeLong. Unlike the slugfest between Menzie and Kash, there are actually some profound disagreements between these...