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Government spending at all levels, though fairly stable even as the Depression set in, constituted only about 15% of GDP in the 1920s. Less than one-fifth of that was federal expenditures. "If the Federal Government should go out of existence, the common run of people would not detect the difference in the affairs of their daily life for a considerable length of time," said famously taciturn President Calvin Coolidge in one of his more long-winded (and accurate) assessments of the national scene. The Federal Government, in other words, was a kind of 90-lb. weakling in the fight...
...obligations have eluded meaningful monitoring, baffled regulators and investors alike and raised hob with markets worldwide. What is now manifestly needed is a round of creative institutional invention like what the New Deal gave us. Then history will have repeated itself neither as tragedy nor as farce but as common sense and consequential reform...
There’s a chaotic scene in the Mather Junior Common Room on Thursday nights. As rehearsal for co-ed a cappella group The Opportunes winds down, the group’s members are so engrossed in talking to one another that they barely notice onlookers. They plan their weekend retreat—scary movies get a thumbs-up, but movie-musicals are promptly vetoed. The group breaks into a rendition of M.I.A.’s “Paper Planes,” prompting someone to jokingly announce next week’s auditions for the gunshot...
...champagne…” Amanda B. Wyatt ’12 trails off. “So much champagne.” This is also the night when auditioners fill out the preference forms that will determine which group they join should they receive multiple invitations, a common occurrence in years like this...
...practice space, off-campus gigs, and even songs to perform. The co-ed groups use an online a cappella database to prevent problems that may arise from two groups learning or arranging the same song. Mallory says the database was created about five years ago to help resolve the common dilemma that arises when groups start to overlap in genre and style...