MedWorm provides a medical RSS filtering service. Over 6000 RSS medical sources are combined and output via different filters. This feed contains the latest medical blog items that have been tagged with 'great depression'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:24:11 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4960043&cid=t_186195_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FCoYuX5FPRRM%2F Conclusion is a post from Cato @ Liberty - Cato Institute Blog (Source: Cato-at-liberty) Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4960043 Wed, 22 Jun 2011 15:07:17 +0100 4960043 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4921390&cid=t_186195_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FVVOUecP7aPc%2F By Mark A. CalabriaThe standard Keynesian policy proposal for a weak economy is to have the government spend more money, and run deficits to do so.  Clearly much of current government spending is being financed by borrowing.  So current conditions are not subject to the New Deal critique that it was mostly paid for by taxes, as during the Great Depression. Current federal expenditures have increased about 41% since the housing market peaked in 2006.  Has all this government spending generated many jobs?  While keeping in mind that correlation is not the same as causality, it is interesting that the trend in government spending and total non-farm employees mirror one another, but not in the way you’d like.  The more the government has spent, the more people have lost their jobs... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4921390 Thu, 09 Jun 2011 20:35:37 +0100 4921390 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4862514&cid=t_186195_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FBrZgMjl4-q0%2F By Mark A. CalabriaThere’s a great piece in the spring issue of The Independent Review on Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke by San Jose State Professor Jeffrey Rogers Hummel.  Although a bit long, its well worth the read for anyone wanting to understand both Bernanke’s thinking and his actions during and since the financial crisis. First, Prof. Hummel discusses the differences between Bernanke’s and Milton Friedman’s explanations for the Great Depression.  Those that debate whether Bernanke’s actions, especially the quantitative easings, would be approved of by Friedman will get a lot out of this discussion.  From this comparison, you get the point that Friedman was concerned about overall credit conditions and liquidity, whereas Bernanke is less focuse... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4862514 Tue, 24 May 2011 19:15:18 +0100 4862514 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4828855&cid=t_186195_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FlopNtY9ZBac%2F By Daniel GriswoldCarrying on an annual tradition dating back to President Franklin Roosevelt, President Obama issued a proclamation on Friday declaring this third week in May “World Trade Week.” Of course, every week is world trade week at the Cato Institute’s Herbert A. Stiefel Center for Trade Policy Studies, but in order to do our part as good citizens, we’ve organized a book forum this Tuesday, May 17, at 4 p.m. on a new book by Dartmouth College economist Douglas Irwin, titled, Peddling Protectionism: Smoot-Hawley and the Great Depression. The Smoot-Hawley tariff bill is a fitting subject for any World Trade Week. As we note in the invitation: More than 80 years after its passage, the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act of 1930 still resonates in today’s debate over trade policy. A... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4828855 Mon, 16 May 2011 15:39:29 +0100 4828855 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4522145&cid=t_186195_109_f&fid=34750&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpsychcentral.com%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2011%2F02%2F25%2Fhow-abraham-lincoln-used-faith-to-overcome-depression%2F Abraham Lincoln is a powerful mental health hero for me. Whenever I doubt that I can do anything meaningful in this life with a defective brain (and entire nervous system, actually, as well as the hormonal one), I simply pull out Joshua Wolf Shenk’s classic, “Lincoln’s Melancholy: How Depression Challenged a President and Fueled His Greatness.” Or I read the CliffsNotes version: the poignant essay, “Lincoln’s Great Depression” that appeared in The Atlantic in October of 2005. Every time I pick up pages from either the article or the book, I come away with new insights. This time I was intrigued by Lincoln’s faith — and how he read the Book of Job when he needed redirection. I’ve excerpted the paragraphs below from the article on ... World of Psychology blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4522145 Fri, 25 Feb 2011 20:09:22 +0100 4522145 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4318333&cid=t_186195_87_f&fid=39187&url=http%3A%2F%2Fgetbetterhealth.com%2Fhealthcare-spending-slowest-growth-since-the-great-depression%2F2011.01.06 Healthcare spending grew in 2009 at its slowest rate since 1938, according to a report published in Health Affairs. The last time America saw such a slow growth rate on health spending it was still emerging from the Great Depression and hadn’t yet entered World War II. The most recent recession is also the cause for the health spending figures, according to the annual report, released by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. The report shows that the recession left a deeper impact than previous ones. Healthcare spending grew 4 percent to $2.5 trillion, outpacing the rest of the still recovering economy. Authors wrote that the recession contributed to slower growth in private health insurance spending and out-of-pocket spending by consumers, as well as a reduction in capita... Better Health blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4318333 Thu, 06 Jan 2011 18:00:00 +0100 4318333 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4265685&cid=t_186195_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FLgWHTqcgriY%2F By Mark A. CalabriaA recurring concern we have heard since the financial crisis erupted is that banks are simply not lending, and that this is holding back economic activity.  If only banks would lend, the economy would grow.  As usual, the truth is a little more complex.  Unlike in the Great Depression, and despite about 300 bank failures, the balance sheets and deposits of insured commercial banks and thrifts has been steady, if slowly, expanding throughout the financial crisis and recess.  Banks have continued lending during this time; however, they have changed who they are lending to.  Over the last two years we have witnessed a massive shift from lending to the private sector to lending to the public. The chart below shows banking business lending and bank holdings of U.S. gover... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4265685 Thu, 16 Dec 2010 20:14:31 +0100 4265685 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4074038&cid=t_186195_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FoH04YsEeYK8%2F By David BoazJoshua Green writes in the Atlantic, after discussing the Austrian economists’ views in 1929 on what to do about the not-yet-great depression: Herbert Hoover’s Treasury secretary, Andrew Mellon, offered similar counsel, famously urging Hoover to “liquidate” and “purge the rottenness out of the system.” But this failed to stop the catastrophe. That’s true. And you know, here’s a general rule: Absolutely nothing that a treasury secretary says to a president will affect the real economy if the president ignores his advice and does something else. Hoover didn’t cut federal spending, he doubled it. He established the Reconstruction Finance Corporation. He propped up wages and prices. Indeed, he launched the New Deal. And Green is right: In the fac... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4074038 Thu, 14 Oct 2010 19:25:54 +0100 4074038 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3463581&cid=t_186195_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FR5vqWx39lqY%2F By Tad DeHavenOne of the topics Chris Edwards will be discussing with Glenn Beck this evening (5:00 EST, Fox) is the “Not-So-Great Depression” of 1920-21. Cato Senior Fellow Jim Powell notes that President Warren G. Harding inherited from his predecessor Woodrow Wilson “a post–World War I depression that was almost as severe, from peak to trough, as the Great Contraction from 1929 to 1933 that FDR would later inherit.” However, instead of calling for bigger government to right the economy, as President Obama did upon inheriting George Bush’s mess, Harding pushed for spending and tax cuts. The result? With Harding’s tax and spending cuts and relatively non-interventionist economic policy, GNP rebounded to $74.1 billion in 1922. The number of unemployed fell to 2.8 million�... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3463581 Mon, 12 Apr 2010 18:23:03 +0100 3463581 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3429227&cid=t_186195_109_f&fid=34750&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpsychcentral.com%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2010%2F04%2F01%2Fmental-illness-cured%2F After working on these issues for the past 150 years, Psych Central is pleased to announce a final, simple cure for mental illness. “Yes, it’s been a long-time in the making, but we finally figured out how to cure mental illness,” said Founder and CEO of Psych Central, Dr. John Grohol. “The final push came 6 months ago, when we realized we had not only discovered the single mental illness gene, but how to deactivate it with simple products found in most people’s homes.” The cure comes on the heels of over 150 years of mental illness being recognized as something needing treatment. Serious mental disorders — things such as depression, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, anxiety and panic, ADHD — have long had a significant, negative impact in peo... World of Psychology blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3429227 Thu, 01 Apr 2010 14:55:36 +0100 3429227 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3339774&cid=t_186195_136_f&fid=37852&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdonnatrussell.com%2F2010%2F03%2F07%2Fwhen-banks-go-bad%2F New cartoon by Trussell & Trussell on AOL’s Politics Daily. When Banks Go Bad. Filed under: Politics Daily Tagged: chaos theory, economy, great depression, political cartoon, recession, wall street (Source: Donna Trussell) Donna Trussell blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3339774 Sun, 07 Mar 2010 16:16:06 +0100 3339774 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3331536&cid=t_186195_136_f&fid=37852&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdonnatrussell.com%2F2010%2F03%2F04%2Foh-by-the-way-dr-obama-code-blue%2F New cartoon by Trussell & Trussell on AOL’s Politics Daily. Oh, by the Way, Dr. Obama, CODE BLUE. Filed under: Politics Daily Tagged: chaos theory, economy, great depression II, health care reform, obama, political cartoon, unemployment (Source: Donna Trussell) Donna Trussell blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3331536 Thu, 04 Mar 2010 17:55:09 +0100 3331536 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3149034&cid=t_186195_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FtVv87lxdqr0%2F By Daniel GriswoldThree items in the news this week remind us why we should be glad we live in a more global economy. While American consumers remain cautious, American companies and workers are finding increasing opportunities in markets abroad: Sales of General Motors vehicles continue to slump in the United States, but they are surging in China. The company announced this week that sales in China of GM-branded cars and trucks were up 67 percent in 2009, to 1.8 million vehicles. If current trends continue, within a year or two GM will be selling more vehicles in China than in the United States. James Cameron’s 3-D movie spectacular “Avatar” just surpassed $1 billion in global box-office sales. Two-thirds of its revenue has come from abroad, with France, Germany, and Russia the lea... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3149034 Wed, 06 Jan 2010 19:02:52 +0100 3149034 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2977273&cid=t_186195_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2F8Zy8En-qHt4%2F On its front page today, the Washington Times reports that expanded powers for the Federal Reserve are being opposed by “odd allies.”  The Fed’s imperial over-reach for additional regulatory powers is being opposed by Democrats and Republicans, and liberals and conservatives alike.  As well it should be.  As Senator Shelby observed, “Anointing the Fed as the systemic-risk regulator will make what has proven to be a bad bank regulator even worse.” The regulation of financial services failed conspicuously to prevent the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression.  The Fed failed most conspicuously as it was charged with oversight of all the major banks, including notably Citigroup and Bank of America. Bank regulation now functions to insulate banks f... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2977273 Mon, 09 Nov 2009 17:28:21 +0100 2977273 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2923235&cid=t_186195_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FLi5cZ114Bhc%2F Cato v. Heritage on the Patriot Act, Round II. Today’s topic: “Where are the demonstrated examples of abuses of liberties because of the Patriot Act? Are there any provisions of the law that civil libertarians would find acceptable?” Comparing the Great Depression to the current recession: Did we not learn anything? Re-examining the U.S. alliance with Japan: “The current relationship remains trapped in a world that no longer exists.” The human cost of delayed economic reform in India: “With earlier reform, 14.5 million more children would have survived, 261 million more Indians would have become literate, and 109 million more people would have risen above the poverty line.” How the free market can save health care. Podcast: What we shou... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2923235 Fri, 23 Oct 2009 21:48:46 +0100 2923235 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2894485&cid=t_186195_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2F02AapfvWo4Y%2F Why there’s no way to enforce a ban on texting while driving. How onerous financial rules will only delay economic recovery and dampen long-term growth. It’s time to start over on health care reform: “If you’re going the wrong way down a road, the answer isn’t to step on the gas, but to turn around.” Is the current recession the worst since the Great Depression? You might be surprised… When “history” dials the wrong number. Podcast: Will the GOP of 2010 Be led by ideas? (Source: Cato-at-liberty) Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2894485 Wed, 14 Oct 2009 21:33:57 +0100 2894485 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2820207&cid=t_186195_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FAPTJ6jifkK4%2F David Rockefeller, the former chairman and CEO of Chase Manhattan Bank, makes a compelling historical case in today’s New York Times for pursing free trade policies. Rockefeller has been around long enough to remember the Smoot-Hawley tariff bill of 1930 and the Great Depression that followed. In an op-ed piece titled, “Present at the Trade Wars,” he writes: I lived through the stock market crash of 1929 and the Great Depression that followed it, and I saw that there was no direct cause and effect relationship. Rather, there were specific governmental actions and equally important failures to act, often driven by political expediency, that brought on the Depression and determined its severity and longevity. One critical mistake was America’s retreat from international trade. This n... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2820207 Mon, 21 Sep 2009 17:53:47 +0100 2820207 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2598191&cid=t_186195_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FWpZvflg_xZQ%2F Recent weeks have seen a swirl of speculation over whether President Obama will or will not re-appoint Ben Bernanke to the Chairmanship of the Federal Reserve Board, when his current term as Chair expires in January 2010. Almost all of the debate has centered on his actions as Chairman. This narrow focus misses an important piece: his actions, and words, as a Fed governor during the build-up of the housing bubble. What should have been Bernanke’s greatest strength as a Fed governor and later chair, his understanding of monetary theory and his knowledge of the Great Depression, has ended up being a weakness. While correct in his analysis of the role of “debt deflation” — where the deflation increases the real burden of debts and correspondingly weakens the balance s... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2598191 Mon, 13 Jul 2009 14:19:43 +0100 2598191 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2464102&cid=t_186195_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2Fs6NEc8M3nVM%2F President Barack Obama appears to have learned something compared to candidate Obama: protectionism isn’t to America’s advantage.  Unfortunately, it is not clear that Congress has learned the same lesson.  Three free trade agreements negotiated by the Bush administration remain in limbo, while no one is pushing to reinstate the president’s so-called fast track negotiating authority. And past protectionist actions are now bearing ill fruit.  The “stimulus” bill required that construction money be spent in the U.S.  Although the provision was amended in response to foreign criticism, some Canadian firms have been adversely affected.  So Canadian cities have begun boycotting American products. Reports Reuters: Canadian municipal leaders threatened to retali... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2464102 Mon, 08 Jun 2009 13:30:54 +0100 2464102 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2405412&cid=t_186195_109_f&fid=34750&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpsychcentral.com%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2009%2F05%2F14%2Frecession-mental-health-use-has-doubled%2F While a recession has been bad for health products and services in general, it’s been a boon for mental health industry. Data comes from a survey of 3,307 adults surveyed once in January and again in April 2009. The survey found that people actually spending and using various health services and products — primarily the use of prescription drugs, over-the-counter (OTC) drugs, physician services, dental services, and health/personal care goods — fell during that time period. During the same time period, demand for psychiatric and mental health services nearly doubled — from 4 percent in January to 7 percent in April. Job loss, loss of your home, and lack of discretionary income likely drives more people to seek out help for feeling depressed, anxious or other em... World of Psychology blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2405412 Thu, 14 May 2009 18:00:14 +0100 2405412 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2380728&cid=t_186195_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FTH9YJzJh5n4%2F A coalition of more than 70 groups around the world, from Canada to Brazil to Kyrgyzstan to Germany to China to Japan to Kenya, has joined together to stop the dangerous stirrings of protectionism.  The FreedomToTrade.org coalition (coordinated internationally by the Atlas Economic Research Foundation and the International Policy Network) has circulated a petition (signed by over 1,000 economists and thousands of others) and is now producing documentaries to alert the public to the dangers posed by protectionism.  This one is on the role the Smoot-Hawley Tariff played in turning a serious recession into the Great Depression. The mini-documentary is also being made available in 12 other languages.  The Spanish version will be available on Cato’s Spanish-language project, ElCato.or... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2380728 Thu, 30 Apr 2009 13:41:00 +0100 2380728 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2263794&cid=t_186195_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FgOtvX_8HppI%2F On Meet the Press last Sunday, Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) said Those on the hard right say, “Cut government spending, let’s go back to the old Reagan days.” Well, the last president who did this when we were in this type of situation was Herbert Hoover.  Herbert Hoover said the government should do nothing when we were in a recession, not a depression.  We did nothing and it related [sic] to a depression. Reality check: Did President Hoover cut federal spending during the recession that became a depression? Not by a long shot.   Source: OMB Federal spending was $3.1 billion (those were the days!) in 1929, the year Hoover took office and the stock market crashed. It rose modestly for two years, then shot up in 1932. It dropped a bit in nominal terms in 1933, though def... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2263794 Thu, 12 Mar 2009 23:56:40 +0100 2263794 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2141795&cid=t_186195_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2F524805910%2F There has been much recent debate about whether or not President Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal policies increased the nation’s economic pain during the Great Depression or led to its end. In today’s Cato Daily Podcast, Regulation Magazine managing editor Thomas A. Firey reveals why erroneous stories about the effects of the New Deal survive despite decades of economic research that tell a different, more nuanced story: Listening to the fight today among commentators on the left and the right talking about the New Deal and making various claims about it, as far as a stimulus—they’re almost all wrong, and what’s most disturbing to me as an economic historian is this is actually pretty well-plowed ground, so I don’t know how they can be wrong and how no one’s calli... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2141795 Tue, 27 Jan 2009 22:12:20 +0100 2141795 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2108116&cid=t_186195_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2F512422117%2F While Barack Obama’s economics team hammers out its $800 billion fiscal stimulus plan, the commentariat is battling over the effectiveness of what some consider the prototype stimulus package, the New Deal.* The suppressed (and problematic) conclusion to all this punditry seems to be: Because government spending under the New Deal helped/didn’t help to end the Great Depression, the Obama stimulus plan will/won’t help to end the current recession. One of the opening salvos was this exchange between George Will (anti-New Deal) and Paul Krugman (pro). More recently, New York Times editorial board member Adam Cohen (pro) wrote this column, responding to an op-ed by former Business Week bureau chief Andrew Wilson (anti) in The Wall Street Journal. So who’s right? Did... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2108116 Thu, 15 Jan 2009 01:09:25 +0100 2108116 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2067676&cid=t_186195_133_f&fid=35096&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.b5media.com%2F%7Er%2Fb5media%2FAutismVox%2F%7E3%2FWh8Fvf8vREw%2F Things small and familiar were the gifts that Charlie most liked: A pale blue Mugen Pop Pop, a new copy of a DVD he already has (and that’s gotten so scratched up and smudged that it skips and gets stuck), a case for his Leapster (which we should have gotten a while ago, as Charlie’s dropped his a couple of times). We’d be happy to get him some more elaborate gifts, and have over the years. Iused to spend quite a bit of time choosing toys and then even more time teaching Charlie to play with them (some of the toys are still in closets in our house and in my parents’, shiny and wrapped in plastic to protect them from the dust). Charlie pretty much seems to lack consumer consciousness. He likes what he likes. And so, while experiencing the sort of quavering feeling ma... Autism Vox blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2067676 Sat, 27 Dec 2008 07:01:32 +0100 2067676 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1866506&cid=t_186195_136_f&fid=37852&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdonnatrussell.com%2F2008%2F10%2F09%2Fonly-yesterday%2F : An Informal History of the 1920s is an excellent book by former editor of Harper’s magazine. Author Frederick Lewis Allen shows such insight into this era you’d think it was published decades later instead of in 1931. The website contains the whole book for you to read — free! (I bought a used book, but it’s so old it’s literally crumbling.) Chapters:  1. Prelude: May, 1919. 2. Back to Normalcy 3. The Big Red Scare 4. America Convalescent 5. The Revolution in Manners and Morals 6. Harding and the Scandals 7. Coolidge Prosperity 8. The Ballyhoo Years 9. The Revolt of the Highbrows 10. Alcohol and Al Capone 11. Home, Sweet Florida 12. The Big Bull Market 13. Crash! 14. Aftermath: 1930-31 Excerpt from the chapter on Florida land speculation of the mid-1920s: T... Donna Trussell blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1866506 Fri, 10 Oct 2008 21:09:05 +0100 1866506 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1494643&cid=t_186195_158_f&fid=36024&url=http%3A%2F%2Fblog.healthtalk.com%2Fcaregiver%2Fjeff%2Fanother-caregiver-role-recording-family-histories%2F Over the years, my 91-year-old father has recounted quite a few interesting stories of family history and his life. I thought they were worth preserving, and I knew I wouldn’t be able to remember and recount them accurately – so about 10 years ago, with the help of my daughter Amanda, I set about recording them. I bought Pops a little cassette recorder, showed him how to use it, and then told him to just sit down and talk into the tape recorder whenever the mood struck him. With Pops, the best stories have always rolled off his tongue without prompting. An interviewer is extraneous, unnecessary and a positive hindrance. Every week or so, I would get the full cassette from him and give him another blank one. Amanda helped by transcribing the tapes on the computer. Eventually we had an a... Caregiver Notes blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1494643 Wed, 04 Jun 2008 01:14:27 +0100 1494643