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Yes, we can … have our own Depression

By Chris Steller | 04.04.09 | 10:50 am

With unemployment at 8.5 percent, former Labor Secretary Robert Reich finally called it:

This is still not the Great Depression of the 1930s, but it is a Depression.

When depressions were great: The ominous offhand remark edition

By Chris Steller | 03.04.09 | 5:01 pm

hoover-signAre we in a depression? Maybe so, if offhand remarks about the last one now require clarification. During Tim Pawlenty’s substitute-radio-host gig this afternoon on KKMS-AM, a Christian talk station, the…

Minneapolis: The go-to town for presidential shout-outs during economic downturns

By Chris Steller | 02.25.09 | 6:18 am

Think it was mere chance that got Minneapolis a mention in President Obama’s address to Congress? It turns out that the select occasions in the past when Minnesota’s biggest city turned up in presidential addresses have always been during…

Obama as FDR?

By Paul Schmelzer | 11.24.08 | 11:32 am

As the Boston Globe offers a sobering reflection on what a 2009 depression might feel like, New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman calls for the emergency swearing-in of Barack Obama, stating that stock and credit markets “have…

Depression-era cash box found in Wisconsin as Minnesota bank fails

By Chris Steller | 06.03.08 | 8:38 am

When a Minnesota bank becomes the nation’s fourth since December to fail (as happened Friday), and a Minnesota credit union gets hit with a cease-and-desist order from the state for being in the red (as…

The Big D: “Depression” is word of the day

By Molly Priesmeyer | 03.31.08 | 11:40 am

On the eve of the day of Great Fools, the Bush Administration has given the “Great Depression” its second major media debut. News outlets are bandying about the words this morning after Treasury Secretary Henry…