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Letters to the editor
-------------------- FOR THE RECORD: Hoover Dam: The caption on a photo of Hoover Dam that ran Feb. 27 said: "Under FDR, the U.S. built huge dams, such as Hoover Dam, to spur economic recovery." Construction of the dam began under President Hoover and was...Tags: Berkeley (Alameda, California), Starbucks Corp., Louisiana, Disasters and Accidents, Tropical Weather
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Are we depressed yet?
![A grisly banner was held aloft the other day at a demonstration on Wall Street. Its graphic message advised denizens of the street to "Jump!" It was a frightful reminder of perhaps the most widely believed legend about the Great Depression of the 1930s; that the sudden collapse of the economy filled the sky with the falling bodies of suicidal stockbrokers. As a matter of fact, there were very few such suicides. But the myth captured a deeper truth. Except for the Civil War, no event in American history proved more traumatic. It left scars that are with us today.](http://www.latimes.com/media/thumbnails/story/2008-10/42775772-07190235.jpg "A grisly banner was held aloft the other day at a demonstration on Wall Street. Its graphic message advised denizens of the street to "Jump!\" It was a frightful reminder of perhaps the most widely believed legend about the Great Depression of the 1930s; that the sudden collapse of the economy filled the sky with the falling bodies of suicidal stockbrokers. As a matter of fact, there were very few such suicides. But the myth captured a deeper truth. Except for the Civil War, no event in American history proved more traumatic. It left scars that are with us today.")
A grisly banner was held aloft the other day at a demonstration on Wall Street. Its graphic message advised denizens of the street to "Jump!" It was a frightful reminder of perhaps the most widely believed legend about the Great Depression of the 1930s;...Tags: Stock Broking, Unemployment Benefits, Great Depression (1929), Financially Distressed Companies, Financial Markets
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Gen. Patton's loot
TONY PLATT, professor emeritus of social work at Cal State Sacramento, is the author of "Bloodlines: Recovering Hitler's Nuremberg Laws, From Patton's Trophy to Public Memorial."THE METROPOLITAN Museum of Art in New York and the Getty Center in Los Angeles are facing charges of complicity in the acquisition of looted art. The objects in question are ancient artworks and artifacts, but loot can come from any time and any place....Tags: Crimes, History, Sacramento, Joseph Goebbels, World War II (1939-1945)
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Economy: Does Obama know what he's doing?
Spin CycleWe don't claim to be economists here (that's probably obvious), but occasionally wonder how it is that economic collapse suddenly fills the politicians with great confidence that they can and should spend money like drunken sailors. If you have......Tags: Politics, Heads of State, Gerald Ford, United States, State Budgets
Feb 27, 2009
|Story| Los Angeles Times
Oct 7, 2008
|Story| Los Angeles Times
Apr 4, 2006
|Story| Los Angeles Times
Jan 13, 2009
|Blog| Newsday
Original site for Herbert Clark Hoover topic gallery.