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President and Mrs. Roosevelt on Inauguration Day, 1933.Barack Obama and George W. Bush seem to have come away from their study of the Great Depression with similar conclusions:To wit: After the Crash of 1929, the Federal Reserve did not move fast enough to save the banks and inject cash into the economy.

Econ Cage Match: Friedman vs Keynes and "worst since" patterns we've enjoyed all of 2008, last week was the "best weekly return since the Great Depression"; in a very short week to boot. No surprise since we are coming off a 3 month "worst of". Similar ... Health 0

This afternoon, thanks to a kind offer from Ian at Racing Bulls, I managed to tag along to a very lovely tour of the Red Bull F1 factory near Milton Keynes. Myself and ten other fans, including Dan from The Red Bullog, all had what can only be described as an amazing day.

by Robert Reich – The economy has just about come to a standstill – not so much because credit markets are clogged as because there’s not enough demand in the economy to keep it going. Consumer spending has fallen off a cliff. Investment is drying up.

Milton Keynes BNP has relaunched in grand style, joining the procession of BNP branches to bounce back after attempts to intimidate the party over the past week. In a well organised mid-week event orchestrated by Councillor Mark Burke, the deputy southeast regional organiser, over 50 members and

These are brand new concept art and animatic images from the upcoming Cronicles of Narnia: Voyage of the Dawn Treader.  And here are some images of the animatic shown of a dragon and the water: The images are from the european DVD release of Cronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian.

John Maynard Keynes is the the father of modern macroeconomics and Roosevelt’s New Deal.  His suggestions to President Roosevelt during the depression are still regarded as the map that led us our country out of The Great Depression.  The UK Guardian just did a reprint of parts of it and it made me

Dog lover turns deluxe home into PS1.4M kennel! November 27th, 2008 - 6:11 pm ICT by ANI - London, Nov 27 (ANI): A Brit dog lover has turned more than half of her deluxe home into a 1.4million-pound grand kennel for her beloved dogs. The dog lover, who does not ...

John Maynard Keynes (right) and Harry Dexter White at the Bretton Woods ConferenceJohn Maynard Keynes, 1st Baron Keynes CB (pronounced /ˈkeɪnz/ "cains") (June 5, 1883 – April 21, 1946) was a British economist whose ideas, called Keynesian economics, had a major impact on modern economic and political theory as well as on many governments' fiscal policies.

We are clearly not having as much fun taking off leverage as we had putting it on, or at least the vast majority are not. This week in Outside the Box we look at some very thought-provoking insights from my good friend Paul McCulley, who helps us think about how we got here and what will be the end point.