Skip to content

Tag Archives: Franklin D Roosevelt

Betting That Cutting Spending Won’t Derail Recovery

The specter of 1937 is haunting the world again. This piece from the New York Times’ David Leonhardt, who warns that the global decision to cut government spending and tighten the austerity belt runs a very real risk of cutting short a shaky economic recovery — a repeat of the events that occurred in the [...]

The case for economic rights

FDR said it and it holds 66 years later: There are benefits and opportunities every American should expect to enjoy. Let’s contrast ideal versions of the two approaches. In the ideal America of economic citizenship, there would be a single, universal, integrated, lifelong system of economic security including single-payer healthcare, Social Security, unemployment payments and family leave [...]

Economic Royalists on Wal*Street — Where’s FDR When You Really Need Him?

FDR became a charismatic folk hero, in no small part because he defined himself as the scourge of Wall Street: Roosevelt offered himself as the leader in a fight against the “economic royalists” who, he charged, “had concentrated into their own hands an almost complete control over other people’s property, other people’s money, other people’s [...]