"National Teach-in to Take Back the American Dream": Big Picture 2/21/12
Free Speech TV
The discussion focuses on three key elements: why and how we almost plunged into a second great depression, what kind of future will Americans have if conservatives control the economy and how we go about rebuilding the American dream.

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Council on Foreign Relations (blog)

¡Viva México! The G20's New Political and Security Agenda
Council on Foreign Relations (blog)
… of its success came at the London Summit of April 2009, when British prime minister Gordon Brown, US president Obama, and their counterparts cobbled together an unprecedented global stimulus package to save the world from a second Great Depression.

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Does Obama Deserve Credit for Avoiding the Second Great Depression?
AlterNet
But a second Great Depression was never in the cards. Sign up to stay up to date on the latest Economy headlines via email. As President Obama's re-election campaign heats up, there are several new accounts of his track record finding their way into …

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The Fiscal Times

Obama's Stimulus Plan: What Worked, What Didn't
The Fiscal Times
MG: Politically you get this very polarized view: Republicans say it was a total flop and Democrats say it prevented a second Great Depression. A lot of Democrats say we should have just had more. When I talked to regular people who were out of work or …

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Obama's recovery?
BusinessDay
Obama's Democratic defenders counter that his policies staved off a second Great Depression, and that the US economy has been steadily working its way out of a deep hole ever since. Middle-ground observers, meanwhile, typically conclude that one cannot …

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The Big One Cometh
Antiwar.com
The “oil shock” alone could bring down already shaky markets, and plunge a badly ailing economy into a Second Great Depression – one that will make the depression of the 1930s look like a Sunday school picnic. Yes, we can prevent another war, …

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Obama's recovery?
Free Malaysia Today
Obama's Democratic defenders counter that his policies staved off a second Great Depression, and that the US economy has been steadily working its way out of a deep hole ever since. Middle-ground observers, meanwhile, typically conclude that one cannot …

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Obama and the 'second Great Depression' saviour myth
Peninsula On-line
One item for which he is – undeservedly – given credit is saving the country from a second Great Depression. The political elites believe in the salvation from the second Great Depression myth with the same fervency as little kids believe in Santa …

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Obama's recovery?
CNN (blog)
Obama's Democratic defenders counter that his policies staved off a second Great Depression, and that the US economy has been steadily working its way out of a deep hole ever since. Middle-ground observers, meanwhile, typically conclude that one cannot …

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GOP: Obama's budget a "road map to Greece"
CBS News
What was he supposed to do, let the banking system, the automobile industry and unemployed go under creating the second great depression? Now the GOP tells us about the impending disaster if we do not cut spending. Whatever happened to their support of …

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