What was the United States' monetary policy response to the Great Recession? What effect did this have on the economy? How can war help end a recession? What were the main reasons behind the recent recession in the US? What impact did it have on...
because it was at huge risk of a panic run on gold— You’d have a lot more wealth if you exchange your dollar for gold; because of the aforementioned double counting, an ounce of gold actually
During World War II, the Allied powers found themselves in increased need of fibers for parachutes and other war materiel, and after the war, DuPont and other American corporations found a new consumer market for their synthetic materials in the context of the postwar economic boom. Initially,...
This early version of an automatic car offered no setting for “park”; instead, the driver was supposed to put the car in reverse and then turn it off. Gas prices fell again this year, fairly substantially, and though the U.S. had not yet joined World War II, the nation was in a...
This trend reversed with the baby boom cohorts who attended school in the 1970s, and only resumed in the mid-1980s. Even today, the college entry rate of male high school seniors is not much higher than it was in 1968. In this paper, we use a variety of data sources to address the...
Greatest Generation - World War II, the Great Depression. Silent Generation - Second Red Scare, Korean War, Suburbanization via Tract Homes. Baby Boomers - Cuban Missile Crisis, McCarthy Hearings, Watergate, Vietnam War, First Moon Landing, Postwar Birth Boom ...
What was one effect of the GI bill on American society in the postwar era? How did the GI bill affect colleges? How did the GI Bill of Rights help soldiers returning home from war after World War II? What effect did the use of credit have on the US economy in the ...
First of all, Sarasota had been a cosmopolitan center long before the postwar boom. It was the adopted hometown of the city was thus populated by musicians, circus artists, and costume designers from Europe. Next to his home—Ca' d'Zan, a Venetian Gothic fantasia—Ringling opened an art ...
each new suburb required the development of vast tracts of land, often fertile farmland. Critics argued that the low-density housing typical of American suburbs was a very poor model for land use, and that smaller, denser urban areas were a better alternative, so long as they were well-desig...
types of regulation, also called "generations," which harkens back to when the two different types were common historically: first-generation, or "rent controls," which were common in the 1950s postwar housing boom, and second-generation, or "rent stabilization," which was common in the 1970...