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Commentary Dowd: THE NEW ERA OF THE 1920s AND THE NEW ECONOMY OF TODAY: BIRDS OF A FEATHER?

Commentary, January, 31 2001 Douglas Dowd
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By Doug DowdThe New Era began poorly, as did our New Economy (dating its take-off as the 1990s). In 1919 there was a short recession, then a sharp inflation and unsteady good times and a very sharp recession, 1921-22; then began the so-called "pro...

Commentary Dowd: A TALE OF TWO CITIES

Commentary, December, 14 2000 Douglas Dowd
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The two cities are Bologna and Venice. The environmental problems threatening both, despite well-publicized "remedies," have not improved but worsened in recent decades; the cities, their problems, and their failure to deal with them exemplify all...

Commentary Dowd: WHAT DO WE WANT? AND WHO ARE "WE"?

Commentary, November, 23 2000 Douglas Dowd
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Alongside and arising from "Seattle" and subsequent protests are questions such as the above -- by those participating in and supporting, and those against the protests. Those and related questions have always deserved serious answers; now more t...

Commentary Dowd: ROTTING AWAY; THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF CORRUPTION AND DECADENCE

Commentary, September, 02 2000 Douglas Dowd
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History is replete with corrupt and decadent societies, including (but not beginning with) that of 1st Century Rome, where decadent/corrupt Nero fiddled as corrupt/decadent Rome burned. Iniquity -- and inequality -- in ancient and medieval societ...

Commentary Dowd: NEITHER A BORROWER NOR A LENDER BE

Commentary, July, 10 2000 Douglas Dowd
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Anyone giving that advice today would be seen as deranged; but, as some oldies will remember, such was once the received truth, as proclaimed by Founding Father Ben Franklin (along with "Waste not, want not" and "A penny saved is a penny earned").

Commentary Dowd: Capitalism and Technology: To whose benefit, at what costs?

Commentary, June, 24 2000 Douglas Dowd
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In 1917, as war ripped Europe apart, Einstein wrote to a friend that "Our much-praised technological progress, and civilization gene rally, could be compared to an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal." Subsequently, in showing that E=MC2,...

Commentary Dowd: THE FREE MARKET; AND ALL THAT JAZZ

Commentary, May, 26 2000 Douglas Dowd
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The rising tide of center/right socioeconomic policies in the United States (among other societies) appalls a goodly share of our people. Riding high on what is now a flood tide, propelled by and propelling it, has been the phenomenal Second Comin...

Commentary Dowd: THE GREAT BRAIN ROBBERY

Commentary, May, 06 2000 Douglas Dowd
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Let not young souls be smothered out before They do quaint deeds and fully flaunt their pride. It is the world's one crime its babes grow dull, Its poor are ox-like, limp and leaden-eyed. Set those words beside these: I am somehow less inte...

Commentary Dowd: SOCIAL SECURITY: FROM SCAM TO SCANDAL IN 65 YEARSBy

Commentary, April, 13 2000 Douglas Dowd
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Of course it's been better than nothing, considering only the great number of old and survivors it has kept at or above the poverty line; or so we are told. But at least two points: about 40 percent of families over 65 have an annual income of und...

Commentary Dowd: SOCIAL SECURITY: FROM SCAM TO SCANDAL IN 65 YEARS

Commentary, April, 05 2000 Douglas Dowd
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Of course it's been better than nothing, considering only the great number of old and survivors it has kept at or above the poverty line; or so we are told. But at least two points: about 40 percent of families over 65 have an annual income of und...

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