Search Results for: Depression

When Washington Took On Wall Street

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Nearly 80 years ago, on Capitol Hill, Ferdinand Pecora forced J. P. Morgan Jr. and other “banksters” to reveal the corruption that had fueled the Great Depression—bringing shame on the financial industry and resulting in new laws to curb abuses. The author looks back at the Pecora Commission hearings, and asks why there is no comparable investigation now.

Source: Vanity Fair
Published: Jun 1, 2010
Length: 19 minutes (4,872 words)

It Happened One Decade

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What the Great Depression did to culture.

Source: The New Yorker
Published: Sep 21, 2009
Length: 15 minutes (3,860 words)

Life In (and After) Our Great Recession

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Dashed hopes, less sex, even more Sisyphean labor for women—what the histories of the Depression era tell us about middle-class families in crisis, both then and now

Source: The Atlantic
Published: Oct 1, 2009
Length: 10 minutes (2,592 words)

The Great American Bubble Machine

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From tech stocks to high gas prices, Goldman Sachs has engineered every major market manipulation since the Great Depression — and they’re about to do it again

Source: Rolling Stone
Published: Apr 5, 2010
Length: 38 minutes (9,726 words)