The Rustbelt Reader
The Rustbelt Reader is a Pittsburgh-based publication that studies history, measures the present, and imagines the next American century.
| Platform |  | Pricing | Freemium | Publishes | Daily |
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| Issues | 157 | Founded | a year ago | Last Issue | 19 days ago |
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The Gospel of the Plow
There is a kind of ruin that arrives not by accident but by invitation. A man is not robbed of his savings so much as he is talked out of them, and talked out of them in his own voice, repeating back a thing he was told until he cannot tell...
Steel as Security — and What Actually Matters
BY DAVID LOHEYDE · PITTSBURGH PA
Part I ended on a claim: the money can come from Pittsburgh or Tokyo, but the approval comes from Tokyo, and Japan’s cost of capital is rising for the first time in thirty-five years.
That’s true as...
The Cost of Losing the Real Economy
On June 8, at the Edgar Thomson plant in Braddock, U.S. Steel announced up to $2.5 billion to replace an 87-year-old hot strip mill. A company-sponsored economic impact study says the project could support as many as 6,381 jobs across Penns...
The Banker and Mr. Frick
Henry Clay Frick and Andrew W. Mellon. Frick called him “Andy.” Mellon always called him “Mr. Frick.” Separate public-domain portraits, Library of Congress.
Henry Clay Frick had two great financial relationships in his life.
One was with...
Poor Rusty’s Almanac
Editor’s note. This is the abridged edition — the lesson of Poor Rusty’s Almanack No. 1, carried in a pocket. The full fable, with its five plates and the man who sold the Donners their shortcut, is the current number of the Almanack....
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From Fifth Avenue in Pittsburgh, we study history, measure the present, and imagine the next American century.
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