The View from a Drawbridge

Tag: great depression

  • Be Careful What You Wish For

    Nothing ever seems as awful in retrospect.

  • Too Much of a Good Thing

    When I was young and thin and had the metabolism of a hummingbird, I worked for a few months in a place that sold, among other things, ice cream. I was in heaven. All the ice cream I could eat! Well, that lasted, at most, a couple weeks. I took such advantage of that perk…

  • History Repeats Itself

    Here in America most of us think of the Great Depression as being something that impacted our country alone. Not so. The depression did originate in the United States after the stock market crashed in 1929, but it spread throughout the world, causing drops in personal income, tax revenue, and international trade. Unemployment went sky…