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spending habits

standard of living

total debt

traditional values

transformation to third world country

war, involvement in,
see specific wars

American empire

American Enterprise Institute

American military

American Samoa

American-style bubble

Angell, Normal

Anglo-Saxons

Anti-Americanism

Anti-bubble

Anti-inflation policy

Antipoverty programs

Arab population

Argentina

Aristotle

Armistice Day

Aron, Raymond

Arthur, Chester A.

Asakawa, Mr.

Asia/Asians .
See also specific Asian countries

Attila the Hun

Auden,W. H.

Auerback, Marshall

August Revolution

Augustus

Australia

Austro-Hungarian Empire

Autocracy

Automobile industry

Babar

Baby boomer generation

Bailout plan

Balance sheet

Balanced budget

Bangalore

Banking industry
See also
Central banks/central bankers

Bankruptcy

Barbarism

Barbarous reflections

Barron’s

Bear Stearns

Beaumont-Hamel Battle

Belgium

Bernanke, Ben

Bethmann-Hollweg,Theobald von

Biden, Joe

Bill of Rights

Bin Laden, Osama

Bismarck

Black Monday (9/29/08)

Bloom, Sol

Blum, Leon

Bolsheviks

Bonds/bond market

Bonuses

Booms, elements of

Boot, Max

Booth, Alan

Borrowing ability

Bosnia

Bourbon family

Brazil

Bresciani-Turoni

Britain/United Kingdom

Brooke, Rupert

Brooks, David

Brown, Stuart S.

Bryan,William Jennings

Bubbles, types of

Buckley,William F.

Budget deficits

Buffett,Warren

Bulgaria

Bundy, McGeorge

Bureaucracy

Burns, Arthur

Bush, George W.

Business cycles

Buy-and-hold investment strategy

Caesar, Julius

Cahill, Thomas

California housing boom

Cambodia

Camerone, Battle of

Canada

Capital

Capital gains

Capitalism

Carlyle, Thomas

Carranza,Venustiano

Carter, Jimmy

Cartoon economics

Cassius, Avidius

Castries, Christian de

Cato Institute

Central bank/bankers

Central planning

Chained dollars

Chamberlain, Neville

Chancellor, Edward

Chaos, in American economics

Charitable contributions

Chiang Kai Shek

China

Chodorov, Frank

Christ/Christians

Churchill, Winston

Church of England

Citibank/Citigroup

Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)

Civil rights

Civil War

Civil Works Administration

Claudius

Clausewitz

Clemenceau

Clinton, Bill

Clovis, King of the Francs

Cobb, Ty

Cockburn Alexander

Cohen, Roger

Cold War

Collateral damage

Comintern

Commoda

Commodities

Communism .
See also
Cold War; Domino theory; Soviet Union

Competitive Enterprise Institute

Conflagration

Congressional actions

Conservatism

Consiglio Maggiore

Constitution.
See
U.S.Constitution

Consumer debt.
See
Household debt

Consumer economy

Consumerism.
See also
Consumer spending

Consumer price index (CPI)

Consumer price inflation

Consumer spending/consumption trends .
See also
Consumerism

Continental Army

Coolidge, Calvin

Corporate debt

Corruption

Cost of Living Council

Council of Economic Advisors (CEA)

Cox, Christopher

Crain, Mark

Crassus

Credit:

cost of

cycle

supply

Credit bubble/crisis

Credit cards

Credit market

Crews, Clyde Wayne Jr.

Crittenden, Gary

Croesus

Cromwell, Oliver

Ctesiphon

Cung, Nguyen Sinh.
See
Ho Chi Minh

Currencies

Cycles .
See also
Business cycles

Daily Reckoning

Daly, Kevin

Dandoli

Darrow, Clarence

D’az, Porfirio

Daugherty, Harry

Day trading

Debt.
See also
Government debt; Household debt; Public debt

Deceit/deceptions

Decision-making process

Declaration of Independence

Deficit financing.
See also
Budget deficits; Federal deficits;Trade deficits

Deflation

De Gaulle, Charles

Delusions

Democracy

Democratic Republic of Vietnam (DRV).
See also
Vietnam

Depreciation

Depression

Derivatives

Diem brothers

Dien Bien Phu, Battle of

Diocletian

Disco Age

Disposable income

Dividends

Dodd, Chris

Dollar

Domenici, Pete

Dominican Republic

Domino theory

Dot-coms

Douglas, Paul

Dow Jones Industrial Average

Drayton, William

Duiker,William J.

Duncan, Richard

Dynasties

Easton,Terry

Economic contraction/expansion

Economic defense

Economic man

Economic policy

Economics, “enlightened”

Economic stimulus programs

Economists, types of

Edict of Prices

Edwards, John

Efficient market hypothesis (EMH)

Einstein, Albert

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

Élan

Eliot, Charles W.

Elizabeth I

Elizabethan Poor Laws

Emerging markets

Empire(s),
see specific empires

characteristics of

defined

development of

finance, development of

historical listing of

history of

how they work

life cycle/stages of

Employment rates

End of History

Energy policy

Entente powers

Environmental remediation

Equities market

Escoffier, Auguste

Esher,Viscount

E-trading

Eurasia

Europe .
See also specific European countries

Evolutionary biology

Exchange rates

Exports

Fallacy of composition

Fannie Mae

Farming industry

Fascism

“Fatal conceit”

Fat tail events

Federal budget, historical perspectives.
See also
Budget deficits; Federal deficit

Federal deficit

Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)

Federal Housing Agency

Federal Reserve

Feldstein, Martin

Ferdinand, Franz

Ferguson, Niall

Field, Stephen J.

Fillmore, Millard

Finance, modern imperial

Financial bubble

Financial sector bailout

Fisher, Irving

Fishman, Alan

Flanders, Ralph E.

Florida housing bubble

Flynn, John T.

Ford, Gerald

Foreign policy

Foreign trade.
See also
Exports;Trade deficit

Founding Fathers

Fourteen Points

Fourth Crusade

France

Frank, Barney

Frank, Robert

Franklin, Benjamin

Franks,Tommy

Freddie Mac

Free enterprise

Free-market economy

Free trade

Free world

French Revolution

Freud, Sigmund

Friedman, Milton

Friedman,Thomas L.

Frugality

Fukayama, Francis

Fuld, Richard

Functional finance

Galbraith, John Kenneth

Galerius

Galieni

Garfield, James A.

Garibaldi

Garrett, Garet

Gas prices

Gates, Bill

General Motors (GM)

Geopolitics

George, Lloyd

George V

Germany

Geyl, Pieter

Giap,Vo Nguyen

Gibbon, Edward

Gladwell, Malcolm

Globalization

Global trade.
See also
Globalization

Gold .
See also
Gold standard

Gold standard

Goldman Sachs

Gono, Gideon

Government authority .
See also
Regulation

Government debt

Government revenues

Government spending

Great Depression

Great Emancipator.
See
Lincoln, Abraham

Great Society

Greece/Greeks

Greene, Graham

Greenspan, Alan

Gross domestic product (GDP)

Guns-and-butter policy

Hadrian

Haiti

Hamilton, Alexander

Hamilton-Grace, R. S.

Hand, Learned

Hanoi

Hansen, Alvin

Harding,Warren Gamaliel

Harrison,William Henry

Hawley, Mr.

Hayek, Friedrich. A.

Hedge funds

Hedonic price indexing

Hegel

Hegemony

Helferrich, Herr

Heller, Walter

Hemingway, Ernest

Henry IV

Henry VIII

Heraclius

Herzog, Buck

Hill,Vernon W.

Hitler, Adolph

Ho Chi Minh

Hoebeke. H.

“Hollow dummies”

Home equity lines of credit

Homeland Security

Hong Kong

Hoover, Herbert

Hopkins, Thomas

Hotzendorf, Franz Conrad von

Household debt:

American vs. European

consumer debt, generally

credit cards

homeowner equity

increase in

mortgage loans,
see
Mortgage loans

Housing bubble .
See also
Real estate

Howe, Stephen

Hue, Robert

Huerta,Victoriano

Humphrey, Hubert

Huns

Hussein, Saddam

Hyperinflation

Imperial cycle

Imperial finance.
See
Finance, modern imperial

Income

Income tax

Independence

India

Indian reservations

Indochina

Industrial Revolution

Inflation/inflation rate

Information.
See also
Information resources

Information resources:

books,
see
Literature review financial magazines

newspapers

Innovation, economic impact of.
See also
Technological advances

Insurance industry, bailout of

Interest-free loans

Interest-only mortgage loans

Interest rates

Intergenerational debt

Internal Revenue Code (IRC)

Internal Revenue Service (IRS)

International Monetary Fund (IMF)

International Paper Company

Investing, generally:

buy-and-hold strategy

investment selection factors,
see
Investments, selection factors

past/present/future

Investment bubble

Investment clubs

Investor(s):

psychology

types of

Iraq

Iron Curtain

Irrational exuberance

Isms

Isolationism

Italy

Jackson, Andrew

James, Ollie

Japan

Jay, John

Jefferson,Thomas

Job Corps

Johnson, Andrew

Johnson, Harold K.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

Johnson, Paul

Josef, Franz

J.P. Morgan

Kaplan, Robert

Kennedy, John F.

Kennedy, Paul

Kenyon,William Squire

Kerry, John

Kessler, Friedrich

Keynes, John Maynard

Keynesian economics

Khan, Genghis

Khan, Hulagu

Khan, Kublai

Khan, Mongka

Khan, Ogedei

King, Martin Luther

Kinnock, Neil

Kissinger, Henry

Kluck, General von

Koo, Richard

Korea/Korean War

Kostolanyi, Dezso

Kristol, Irving

Kucinich, Dennis

Kuhn, Loeb Investment House

Ku Klux Klan

Kunstler, James

Labor markets/jobs .
See also
Employment rates; Unemployment rates

Laffer, Arthur

La Follette, Robert (“Fighting Bob”)

Lal, Deepak

Lane, Harry

Laos

Latin America

Law, John

Lawrence, Bishop

League of Nations

Legislation

Lehman Brothers

Lenin

Lerner, Abba

Levey, David H.

Levi, Bernard-Henri

Lewis, Wyndham

Liberty Loans

Limbic system analogy

Lincoln, Abraham

Liquidation

Liquidity crisis

Literature review

Loans .
See also
Mortgage loans

Long-Term Capital Management (LTCM)

Look-thru rule

Louis IX

Louis XIV

Louis XVI

Lowenstein, Roger

Lynch, Peter

MacArthur, Douglas

Macedonian empire

Machiavelli

MacMullen, Ramsay

MacNamara, Robert S.

Macroeconomics