...economy; and the Resolution Trust Corporation of the 1980s, which cleaned up the first savings and loan meltdown (also the child of deregulation.) But the similarities are only skin deep. In the cases of the Roosevelt institutions, public capital went hand in hand with stringent toughening of public standards. And with the Resolution Trust Corporation, government sorted out good loans from bad, and sold off assets at so many cents on the...

... as the nation's unofficial private central banker, Teddy Roosevelt's administration continued to keep its distance from Wall .... Not normally chummy with Morgan and his crowd, Roosevelt did cheer from the sidelines as the über-banker...'s involvement in the financial marketplace. President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal did, as a start, engage ... late date, be an even greater one than Roosevelt's New Deal faced. The government must figure out...

Zaroc Stone wrote: Only a Roosevelt-Scale Counterrevolution Can Prevent Great Depression II Wrong. -- not too random uselessnet weirdness: Bill Shatzer wrote: "And over 4,000 Americans have paid with their lives for that little adventure. Plus a half a trillion dollars in national treasure You might compare that with the number of lives lost on 9-11. Or the economic injury incurred from that event. It would have been...

Only a Roosevelt-Scale Counterrevolution Can Prevent Great Depression II By Robert Kuttner, The American Prospect. Posted..."moral hazard"-- an invitation to take excessive risks. Government, under Franklin Roosevelt, got serious about regulating financial markets after the first cycle of ...contracted, choking the rest of the economy. In the 1930s, the Roosevelt administration acted to prevent a repetition of the ruinous 1920s. Commercial...

... Only a quick bout of sweeping and decisive regulation can fix what's broken. In 1932, three years after the 1929 stock market crash, the banking system last stood at a brink of implosion. Franklin Delano Roosevelt zoomed past Herbert Hoover into the White House. The country was struggling through a Great Depression unleashed by the forces of unregulated economic greed. FDR stood up to the unrestrained power of Wall Street and contained ...

"Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one." *Eleanor Roosevelt* 1884 - 1962

... will be someone there who can skin a moose if the need | arises. She'll make quick work of skinning any leftist that gets in her way. "It is both foolish and wicked to teach the average man who is not well off that some wrong or injustice has been done him, and that he should hope for redress elsewhere than in his own industry, honesty, and intelligence." -- Theodore Roosevelt, "Review of Reviews", January 1897 | | |

...| | Vote McCain/Palin for 4 more years of the same. Oh it won't be the same. You'll find out when McCain/Palin take office in January. "It is both foolish and wicked to teach the average man who is not well off that some wrong or injustice has been done him, and that he should hope for redress elsewhere than in his own industry, honesty, and intelligence." -- Theodore Roosevelt, "Review of Reviews", January 1897 | |

...that are assessed on everyone and is | administered by a government agency. That's socialized. No more than the insurance premium you paid to AFLAC. "It is both foolish and wicked to teach the average man who is not well off that some wrong or injustice has been done him, and that he should hope for redress elsewhere than in his own industry, honesty, and intelligence." -- Theodore Roosevelt, "Review of Reviews", January 1897

...wicked to teach the average man who is not well off that some wrong or injustice has been done him, and that he should hope for redress elsewhere than in his own industry, honesty, and intelligence." -- Theodore Roosevelt, "Review of Reviews", January 1897 | | +++++++++++++++ | | "I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government | from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care ...