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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…