Rolling Stones Exile On Main Street Blues
Route 66 first entered the general public conscience in 1939 when California writer John Steinbeck published his novel “The Grapes of Wrath”, detailing the westward migration of Oklahoma’s Dust Bowl farmers to California’s San Joaquin Valley. During the story, he refers to Route 66 as the “Mother Road”, a nickname it still has today. When Steinbeck won the Pulitzer Prize for his novel, the road became even more famous.
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A funny thing happened on the way to writing this column. Ferris Bueller’s economics teacher beat me to deadline.
Even scarier, I agree with Ben Stein’s position in his New York Times piece August 8. Chicken Little got it wrong. The sky isn’t falling. And healthy financial adjustments are being made from Wall Street to Main Street.
But let me take Stein’s premise one step further.
While
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WALL STREET VERSUS MAIN STREET! June 19, 2009.
The Administration has provided Congress with a proposed overhaul of financial industry regulations that is sweeping in its coverage to say the least, the most serious attempt to protect investors since the 1930’s, but guaranteed to have Wall Street and its powerful friends taking up arms against it.
And there’s more than enough in it to have Wall Street fighting back – much as t
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