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How Lincoln Might Fix Our Economic Mess. Mr.
Striner is Professor of History at Washington College and the author of Father Abraham: Lincoln’s Relentless Struggle to End Slavery (Oxford, 2006). He has written on economic issues for the Washington Post. As America grapples with the worst economic chain-reaction since 1929 —— and as President-Elect Obama takes time to consider more closely the methods of Abraham Lincoln —— it is time to reconsider a monetary method that Lincoln and the Civil War Republicans used, a monetary method that America’s leading economists attempted to revive in the 1930s. It’s a method that could work right now, but with a critical revision to adapt it to the methods and techniques of the Federal Reserve.
Extortionate bank interest rates caused Lincoln and his fellow Republicans to think more creatively about finance. A general ignorance about money obscures the fact that “printing press money” is created right now by the Federal Reserve. How can such a thing be possible? But here’s a different idea. Anarchist Cookbook. World-Mysteries.com. Archaeology Magazine. It Happened One Decade. “I want to find out why I’m working,” Cary Grant tells Katharine Hepburn in “Holiday.”
Grant’s character, a grocer’s son who put himself through Harvard, wants to take time off from a promising business career, and Grant makes the proposal sound at once existential and lighthearted—as if he wants to investigate not because he’s especially troubled or especially gifted but because this is the sort of thing human beings like to know, and he happens to have the means to try to find out. “The answer can’t be just to pay bills and to pile up more money,” he says. It sounds reasonable, and, though his fiancée is appalled, Hepburn, her sister, is enchanted. An heiress, she doesn’t know what to be when she grows up, either.
“I never could decide whether I wanted to be Joan of Arc, Florence Nightingale, or John L. “Holiday” was released in 1938. As dismal as the current recession is, the Great Depression puts it to shame. According to Dickstein, the misery went underreported at first.