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The Rustbelt Reader

The Rustbelt Reader is a Pittsburgh-based publication that studies history, measures the present, and imagines the next American century.

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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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The Mountain Without a Map

The frontier rewards boldness. It also punishes the men who stop measuring it.

A new series: American history told as fables, each with a takeaway you can carry. Poor Richard preached thrift and industry to a young republic. Poor Rusty dea...

3 days ago
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The Mellon Rules

The Mellon fortune begins with a walk.

Thomas Mellon was a farm boy from Duff’s Hill in Westmoreland County, east of Pittsburgh — a place his family called Poverty Point. At the age of ten he walked the twenty-one miles into the city, and...

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We Hold All the Cards

EDITOR’S NOTE

This essay follows “Why Bother Selling Fannie and Freddie?”, published earlier this week, which argued that the debate over releasing the mortgage giants has been framed around the wrong question. That piece asked what Washin...

a month ago
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Why Bother Selling Fannie and Freddie?

BY DAVID LOHEYDE

At a mortgage-industry conference last year, PIMCO’s head of public policy, Libby Cantrill, said the quiet thing out loud. She questioned the whole “obsession” with releasing Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac — ending the...

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