Reader Comments on The Up Side to Recession from YankeeMagazine.com http://www.yankeemagazine.com/rss/index.php Tue, 22 May 2012 09:04:55 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://www.yankeemagazine.com/blogs/newengland/recession Thanks for this insightful post. I have followed finance and economics closely since the mid-1980s, and until just recently the statement was always: "We learned the necessary lessons from the Great Depression. It will never be repeated again." Now, facing a crisis acknowledged to be the biggest since the post-1929 period, we suddenly have debates over what will work, debates over what did and didn't work in the 1930s. Seems like there isn't a generally accepted understanding of why the Great Depression happened, after all. In the mid-1970s, as a Colby College student, I attended a lecture by the Nearings. I was struck deeply then. And now, my wife and I hope that we can apply some of their principles of living on our 5-acre lot in rural Northeastern Connecticut, as a way of getting through whatever is coming. We've installed corn stoves, we grew a lot of our own food last year, we are trying (struggling) to pay down the college bills and debt. Your post is an inspiration! Thanks! Yankee Publishing (rss@ypi.com) Sun, 11 Jan 2009 03:23:42 +0100