Much has been made recently of comparisons between the Great Depression of 1929 and the current economic crisis all the way to the point of framing President-elect Barack Obama as the twenty-first century’s FDR. Only time will truly tell if the analogy will be borne out (no pun intended), but there are good reasons to be skeptical. The photograph below is one of a number of similar images that appeared in on-line stories and slide shows at a number of major newspapers this past weekend, re

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