Amity Shlaes
Are depression-era services now bankrupting recession-era states?
All across the country, smaller budgets — county, municipal and state — struggle to pay for underfunded civic services. Is it possible that the services we’ve come to depend on since the New Deal are, in fact, acting as an ‘architecture of debt?’
Obama’s ‘New Deal’ aises questions about the success of FDR’s original
With Senators expected to pass what has been called President Obama’s New Deal, an old debate about the original New Deal is bubbling up again. Did FDR’s program really drag the U.S. out of the Great Depression or was it WWII that put us back on track?