By now, New Year’s resolutions have probably been broken, including the one to lose weight. Certainly, getting rid of those pesky extra pounds is not as easy or fun as putting them on. And, when one considers the slew...
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It seems to be widely agreed that the Great Society programs fashioned under Lyndon B. Johnson’s presidency in the 1960s—Medicare and Medicaid, the Job Corps, food stamps, low income housing and urban development,...
Posted by: Anja Hartleb on February 3, 2011
At ITO we love to read. Especially “nerdy” stuff: Gibbon’s Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Shakespeare’s Henry IV, Jefferson’s Papers, Eliot’s Murder in the Cathedral. We love...
Posted by: Anja Hartleb on January 7, 2011
Economic hardship is something most of us go through at some point. In the United States, federal public assistance for families-in-need began in the 1930s during the Great Depression, and was launched on a grand...
Posted by: Anja Hartleb on December 28, 2010
With the Federal Reserve still trying to cure the hangover from the financial crisis, we thought it valuable to examine this institution in greater depth. Our newest library topic, The Federal Reserve Bank...
Posted by: Anja Hartleb on December 15, 2010
Debates over the causes of the recent financial crisis have focused much on the government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs) Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Our newest library topic Fannie Mae & Freddie Mac:...
Posted by: Anja Hartleb on December 10, 2010
Hard to fathom but it has been over two years since the economy fell into a deep recession due to a crisis in the financial sector. Our newest library topic,...
Posted by: Anja Hartleb on November 29, 2010
In the debate over what the American government ought and ought not to do, no constitutional phrase has perhaps wrought more controversy among the learned (i.e. academics) and not so learned (i.e. politicians) than...
Posted by: Anja Hartleb on August 24, 2010
In the summer of 2009, the government devised a brilliant plan that would accomplish three things at once: reduce carbon emissions by taking high-polluting cars off the road, stimulate the economy through auto sales,...
Posted by: Anja Hartleb on August 17, 2010
In light of the potential $3 trillion aggregate pension shortfall in the United States, Intellectual Takeout is pleased to announce the timely arrival of its newest topic page: ...
Posted by: Devin Foley on August 11, 2010