Jed Hallam

Posts Tagged ‘crisis’

Obama and Roosevelt: Fireside Blogging

I was looking through the BeamItDown collection of iPod Touch/iPhone books the other day when I stumbled across something really interesting, Franklin D. Roosevelt’s ‘Fireside Chats’. Between 1933 and 1944 (the Great Depression) Roosevelt used to broadcast fireside chats that addressed a wide variety of topics. There were 29 chats in all and they ranged [...]

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Simple Rules to Simple Banking

Ok, from my meagre understanding of the banking crisis I’ve devised a simple explanation; If you give your money to anyone (friend, bank, broker) you’re investing it in them, set against your trust. You trust the friend/bank/broker to return the money to you when you require it. If they promise to give you a bit [...]

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