<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> In a society grown steadily more affluent over two centuries, the existence of the poor has raised some baffling questions and surprising answers</span> </span></p>
<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> Today’s city, for all its ills, is “cleaner, less crowded, safer, and more livable than its turn-of-the-century counterpart,” argues this eminent urban historian. Yet two new problems are potentially fatal.</span> … </span></p>
<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> The most influential economist in the United States talks about prudence, productivity, and the pursuit of liquidity in the light of the past</span> </span></p>
<p><span class="deck">The crisis swept over France and Germany and Britain alike, and they all nearly foundered. Now more than ever, it is important to remember that it didn’t just happen here.</span></p>
<p><span class="deck"> One hundred years ago many thoughtful people predicted the decline and disappearance of capitalism. What happened to make their prophecy wrong?</span> </p>
<p><span class="deck"> While New York families were spending fortunes inherited from fathers and grandfathers, the Chicago rich had to start from scratch, both making and lavishly spending money within one generation</span> </p>
<p><span class="deck">It depends on whose interpretation of both history and the current crisis you believe. For one of America’s most prominent supply-side economists, the answer is yes.</span></p>
<p><span class="deck">All through the 1920s, eager young emigrants left the towns and farms of America and headed for New York City. One of them recalls the magnetism of the life that pulled him there.</span></p>
<p><span class="deck">At a time when many are concerned by the nation’s loss of the unassailable economic position it occupied just after World War II, one historian argues that our real strength and our real peril lie elsewhere.</span></p>
<p><span class="deck">Why do you need so much money to be rich nowadays? It’s a question that historians and readers of history have always found difficult to answer.</span></p>
<p><span class="deck">It cannot be measured in dollars alone. It involved a kind of personal power that no man of affairs will ever have again.</span></p>
<p><span class="deck">200 years ago, the United States was a weakling republic prostrate beneath a ruinous national debt. Then, Alexander Hamilton worked the miracle of fiscal imagination that made America a health,y young economic giant. How did he do it?</span></p>
<p><span class="deck"> As long as there have been bankers and brokers, there have been people asking what would happen if they had to earn an honest living</span> </p>
<p><span class="deck">For years, people have argued that France had the <span class="typestyle"> real</span> revolution and that ours was mild by comparison. But now, a powerful new book argues that the American Revolution was the most sweeping in all history. It alone established a pure commercial culture that makes America the universal society we are today. </span></p>
<p><span class="deck">Foreign trade, import and export alike, has been indispensable in building America from the very start, and many of our worst economic troubles have arisen when that trade wasn’t free enough. </span></p>
