But, with the recession, there are signs spending habits are trending back toward the Depression era, she says.
Depression era families knew they had to make it on their own and stick together and they did both.
"Good bank, bad bank" is a throwback to the Depression era--and to the savings-and-loan crisis of the late 1980s.
Speyer, a minority partner to Whitehall, which owns the Depression era complex of office buildings sitting in the middle of Manhattan.
Could a modern president leave Washington DC for weeks on end, especially if made to operate under the information constraints of the Depression era?
There are many lessons to learn from these Depression Era survivors.
Under FDR, depression era excise taxes more than doubled.
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Gingrich also led his Republicans to adopt a phaseout of Depression era farm subsidy programs through Freedom to Farm, which was later unfortunately reversed under Speaker Hastert and President George W. Bush after Gingrich left.
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Except for guerrilla kayaking by river lovers such as Raymond and others in the expedition club, the concrete-lined river has been strictly off-limits since the Depression era because the river is technically an Army Corps of Engineers flood control channel, officials said.
She was born in Arkansas and grew up in a working-class family that encountered uniquely harsh struggles, even for the Depression era: Her father died in an elevator accident when she was still young, and her mother and sister contracted polio following a move to Los Angeles.
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Europe, at this time, would merit the attentions of the US Depression-era author John Steinbeck.
" His dad called the Duesenberg--that Depression-era carriage of kings and kingpins--"the greatest car ever built.
Mr. Einhorn has publicly criticized the company for a Depression-era mentality for hoarding cash.
As a boy, Praus learned how to fish and hunt, but enjoyed collecting Depression-era glassware vases.
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The reusing, recycling, and repackaging that take place in Lubbock's cotton industry today would shame the thriftiest Depression-era housewives.
He pointed to the example of Herbert Hoover, the Depression-era president who signed protectionist legislation into law.
In general a handful of homes toting Depression-era gangster ties have burst onto the sale block this year.
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Tom Hanks plays a Depression-era mob assassin, a family man with a small moustache and a stiff walk.
"Apple doesn't have a depression-era mentality, " he said in response to criticism that Apple is hoarding its money.
Investors were told in 1998 that the financial industry had become smarter and more sophisticated than its Depression-era predecessors.
His latest movie, Lawless, had the potential to be a Depression-era gangster hit.
The SEC has eliminated some references to ratings from Depression-era laws and has proposed reducing their importance to asset-backed securities.
They took on much more risk than their parents, whose generation grew up with a Great Depression-era distrust of Wall Street.
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These problems, notably a dust bowl that dwarfs that of the Depression-era U.S., are adding millions of new refugees every year.
His most recent effort, the sprawling 17-song folk tale My Name Is Buddy, revisits the Dustbowl ballad form and Depression-era road songs.
Two years later, just when the bubble was about to burst, the SEC removed the Depression-era protections against abuses by short sellers of securities.
Bank loan officers must feel like Marriner Eccles, the Depression-era Federal Reserve chairman who famously equated the Fed's stimulus efforts with pushing on a string.
Politicians such as Phil Gramm, formerly a senator from Texas, sponsored the repeal of the Glass-Steagall act, a Depression-era separation of investment and retail banking.
Lindner Sr. drastically cut prices by eliminating delivery costs and offering his goods through a cash-and-carry storefront, a model that proved popular with his depression-era customer base.
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The mining magnate plans to revive the Great Depression-era party and stand candidates for every seat in the House of Representatives and Senate at general elections on Sept. 14.
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