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Franklin Roosevelt on Social Security
Below are two messages from Franklin Roosevelt, proposing the Social Security program and signing it into law. The main points to note in the text deal with the purpose and funding of Social Security and unemployment insurance i.e. the why and the how
Hoover’s Great Moderation
Little did Hoover know that it was jut the opposite – poverty would skyrocket as the Great Depression hit America with full force
Russia’s Economic Interests (Part 1)
The neoliberal idea is to dismantle the government’s ability to regulate markets to steer growth and economic advance in the national interest. They claim that this is an alternative to centralized planning. But the reality is that it simply centralizes planning in the hands of bankers – primarily those of Wall Street and the City of London, followed by financial interests in satellite economies and other subordinate partners in this policy
Punishing Savers and Theft Amongst the Elderly
You normally don’t see these two phrases in a single headline, but they are very much connecting. I thought of this this morning when I read a post called Retirement in the Liquidity Trap by Tim Duy. Commenting on a Wall Street Journal article about how U.S. retirees were suffering as a result of low