Why Comparing Trump’s Tariffs To The Smoot-Hawley Act Is Dishonest

Trump's tariffs will work — but they'll work even better with the Federal Reserve's help.

To Bring Back The Magic Of The Big Screen, Build A DIY Backyard Movie Theater

With a do-it-yourself outdoor theater, you can bring into your own backyard all the elements that gave drive-ins their power.

Ending Expectations That Adults Work For A Living Erases Human Dignity

During the Great Depression of the 1930s, the most crippling form of poverty was seen as the poverty of dignity. To read all the letters and diaries and recollections of the time is to see that the severe economic hardship caused by the loss of a job was often considered temporary and survivable. But what […]

Will The U.S. Heed The Lessons Of The 1930s Or Repeat Their Mistakes?

Today’s Western retrenchment is as provocative as it was in the 1930s. The U.S. is signaling its retreat and China will gladly fill the vacuum.

In The Great Depression, Americans Worked For Government Checks. Now People Get Checks For Doing Nothing

Despite a population that is now more prosperous and more educated by several orders of magnitude, we clearly have become more lazy.

Hemingway: Democrats Haven’t Gained So Much From A Crisis Since The Great Depression

Biden says it's not political, but "this deadly virus has been the greatest political gift to the Democratic Party since the Great Depression," Hemingway said.