Mitchell Aboulafia
AIG, Bernie, foreclosures, housing bubble, -401K, recession, depression, global financial meltdown, Eric Cantor, Mad Money, etc.
It’s time for a break, if only a short one.
Let’s return for a moment to how our grandparents (or perhaps our great-grandparents) kept their spirits up in the Great Depression. From “Follow the Fleet” (1936):
Written by Mitchell Aboulafia
March 18, 2009 at 1:21 am
Posted in 1930s, AIG, dance, Economics, Economy, foreclosures, Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Great Depression, politics, Recession, Wall Street
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A break, a holiday, or what William James called “moral holiday, when we relax, refresh, let our cares slip away ’til the dance is done… and then get back into the game. And there are many ways to “dance” through a depression. Thanks, Mitchell, for reminding us that economic adversity does not require unremitting personal despair.
Phil Oliver
March 18, 2009 at 8:11 am
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April 15, 2009 at 12:27 pm
Thank you. Appreciate hearing this.
Mitchell Aboulafia
April 16, 2009 at 1:22 am