Tag: Great Depression

This is an undated photo of a child, hungry after a six-day delay in the issuance of food, biting down on a ham sandwich as he sits down on his mother's lap at a relief station in Cleveland, Ohio, during the Great Depression.

Beltway Confidential

The American story, told through food

Capri Cafaro · August 19, 2018 4:00 am

"Make America Great Again" is certainly a catchy phrase, but it's also a reminder that our best days are not behind us, but ahead of us. America is at its greatest when ordinary people are doing extraordinary things. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson)

Beltway Confidential

The secret to making America great again

Mark Vargas · January 26, 2018 7:54 pm

Ben Bernanke concluded that the Third Reich's rapid recovery suggests that "more aggressive fiscal programs" would also have helped the United States out of its own depression. (AP Photo)

(Chair)Man in the high castle

Scott Burns · January 15, 2016 5:02 am

Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid said Tuesday that Democrats are demanding that the child tax credit be indexed for inflation as part of a deal on the so-called tax "extenders." (Graeme Jennings/Examiner file)

GOP warns against Reid’s joker in spending bill

John Siciliano · December 15, 2015 12:23 am

(Photo courtesy of screen shot of a GSA video on its art recovery effort.)

Feds spend money hunting, confiscating taxpayer-funded art

Sarah Bedford · November 9, 2015 7:34 pm

A screen above the trading floor of the New York Stock Exchange, shows the closing number for the Dow Jones industrial average, Wednesday, Aug. 26, 2015. U.S. stocks closed sharply higher, giving the stock market its best day in close to four years. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

Beltway Confidential

Was Wednesday’s stock market rally historically great?

Jason Russell · August 26, 2015 9:30 pm

Restoring economic growth may be the great challenge of today but to achieve it we must restore marriage. (iStock Photo)

Marriage is pro-growth

Lawrence Kudlow · November 15, 2014 9:53 pm

The economic expansion promised by President Obama in 2009 has been exceptionally sluggish in comparison to previous recoveries and remains so nearly six years later with this milestone. (AP/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Obama’s slow-motion recovery creates a retrograde economy: Examiner Editorial

Washington Examiner · August 13, 2014 8:24 pm

Red Alert Politics

Britain’s failed tax-hike experiment should serve as a red flag for Congress

Washington Examiner · November 30, 2012 4:03 pm