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  • Germany, France to Unveil ‘New Deal’ for EU’s Jobless Youth

    Germany and France will announce joint proposals this month to address Europe’s soaring youth unemployment, the Labor Ministry in Berlin said, confirming a newspaper report of a planned “New Deal for Europe.”

  • Bangladesh 1,000 Dead Recall Triangle-to-Bhopal Tragedies

    The death toll from the collapse of the Rana Plaza garment factory in Bangladesh swelled to more than 1,000 workers, cementing its place among a grisly lineup of the world’s worst industrial disasters and reinforcing calls that the tragedy lead to lasting change.

  • Bass Fishing Beats Billions From TVA Sale for Tennessee

    Scott Lee, an ardent fisherman from Oak Ridge, Tennessee, has an opinion as to whether Barack Obama should sell the federally chartered Tennessee Valley Authority to private investors: Don’t do it.

  • Obama Diversity Promise Makes Second Cabinet Like First

    After being criticized for the lack of diversity among his early Cabinet picks for his second term, President Barack Obama is remaking his new team in the image of his first.

  • Bush’s Campaign to Be Seen as Another Truman

    The dedication this week of the George W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum was more than an opportunity for the five living U.S. presidents to compare notes on what Stefan Lorant called “the glorious burden” of the office.

  • How Franklin Roosevelt Secretly Ended the Gold Standard

    On March 4, 1933, Franklin D. Roosevelt became president for the first time, promising an “adequate but sound” currency. The next day, a Sunday, he closed the nation’s banks. “We are now off the gold standard,” he privately declared to a group of advisers. Goldbugs in the president’s circle immediately began prophesying doom. One of his aides, Lewis Douglas, proclaimed “the end of Western civilization.”

  • Stockman Warns Easy Money, Cheap Debt Hasten Apocalypse

    If there’s one lesson to be learned from David A. Stockman’s massive new book, “The Great Deformation,” it’s this: Beware the zeal of a convert.

  • Roosevelt Wins and the Beer Battle Begins

    As the 1932 presidential election neared, Benjamin Roth, a stalwart Republican and devoted diarist, was deeply discouraged.

  • When the Army Invaded Montgomery Ward

    Many corporate executives have defied the government. How many have been willing to be carried from their offices by soldiers for doing it?

  • The Platinum Coin Wouldn't Have Been Goofy to FDR

    I love the trillion-dollar platinum coin solution to the debt-ceiling blackmail threat, though lots of people find it too gimmicky. They say that a serious government can't pull stunts like that to bolster the financial system.

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