Amity Shlaes

Council on Foreign Relations

Amity Shlaes is a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, a syndicated columnist for Bloomberg, and author of "The Forgotten Man: A New History of The Great Depression" (2007).

Amity Shlaes appears in the following:

Occupy Protesters' Focus on Income Inequality 'Just Plain Wrong'

Friday, October 28, 2011

The Takeaway is continuing our conversation this week on income inequality in America. We’ve covered the Occupy movement, where inequality is a rallying cry, and we reported on a Congressional Budget Office report that highlighted the growth in uneven incomes over the last three decades.We’re taking another look at income inequality this morning, this time from a guest who says Occupy protestors are wrong to focus on income inequality. 

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Are Depression-Era Services Now Bankrupting Recession-Era States?

Monday, December 06, 2010

In the discussion of our nation’s growing debt, there’s an issue that may be going largely unreported in the wash of discussion of the federal deficit. All across the country, smaller budgets — county, municipal and state — struggle to pay for underfunded civic services. Is it possible that the services we’ve come to depend on since the New Deal are, in fact, acting as an “architecture of debt?”

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Health Care Hot Button: "Death Panels" vs. Doctor Consultations

Wednesday, August 12, 2009

Critics of President Obama's health care reform say his plan would create so-called "death panels" to decide which Americans live or die. Supporters say the legislation merely ensures...

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Sanford's Ways and the GOP's Woes

Wednesday, July 01, 2009

As Governor Sanford stays in the headlines with new comments about his infidelity, Republicans are wincing. Sanford may not have a political future, but does his party? To look at wha...

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Obama's "New Deal" raises questions about the success of FDR's original

Tuesday, February 10, 2009

The Senate will vote today on the passage of the $838 billion economic stimulus bill. And with Senators expected to pass what has been called President Obama’s New Deal, an old debate...

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Obama's New New Deal

Tuesday, November 25, 2008

Obama will enter the White House at a moment of economic crisis worse than anything the nation has seen since the Great Depression. How will his new deal compare with FDR's? Jonathan Alter, senior editor and columnist for Newsweek magazine and author of The Defining Moment: FDR's Hundred Days ...

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Amity Shlaes on separating bank and state

Wednesday, November 19, 2008

"From the beginning, the arbitrary aspect of the of the Treasury bailout has frightened a lot of observers." --Amity Shlaes on the economic crisis

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The New Deal

Thursday, October 30, 2008

Amity Shlaes, senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and the author of The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression, discusses Obama's television program last night, the New Deal, and the silver lining in the dismal consumer confidence numbers.

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RNC Coverage: Hour 2

Wednesday, September 03, 2008

Amity Shlaes, senior fellow in economic history at the Council on Foreign Relations and the author of The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression, talks why the Republicans shouldn't focus so much on character--and should start thinking about economic growth.

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New Deal Anew

Tuesday, June 19, 2007

Amity Shlaes, author of The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression (HarperCollins, 2007), and Jonathan Alter, a senior editor and columnist for Newsweek magazine and the author of The Defining Moment: FDR's Hundred Days and the Triumph of Hope (Simon & Schuster, 2006), just out in paperback, ...

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