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November 05, 2008

The Second Gilded Age is OVER!!

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I told my history students last year that in my opinion we had been in a second Gilded Age for the past 30 years and that we might be poised to enter a second Progressive Era.

Laissez Faire is, for now, swirling down the toilet, being sucked down by the economy. Some held up John McCain as a latter-day Theodore Roosevelt. Perhaps. We will never know. What we may in fact have is a latter-day Franklin D. Roosevelt.

But comparisons have their limits. Regardless, extremist free-market principles shall fade away for some time.

Let's roll!

Posted by MJuhre at November 5, 2008 01:14 AM

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