Jeff Greenfield

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Money Talking: Should We Be Scared of $1 Trillion in Student Loans?

Friday, April 27, 2012

May 1 is the deadline for millions of high school seniors to choose where they will go to college in the fall. To pay for it, many will take out thousands of dollars in student loans, only adding to the country’s more than $1 trillion in existing student debt. All this debt is having enormous consequences on economic growth. Could student loans be the next financial bubble?

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Money Talks. We Translate.

Thursday, April 26, 2012

By Jeff Greenfield

"Money talks, nobody walks," went the old ad for Denison Clothes.

"Money doesn’t talk, it swears," Bob Dylan told us in "It’s Alright Ma."

Well, we’ve got a new spin on that old adage: Money talks -- we translate.

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What If? Alternate US Histories

Monday, July 04, 2011

Jeff Greenfield, former senior political correspondent for CBS News and the author of Then Everything Changed: Stunning Alternate Histories of American Politics: JFK, RFK, Carter, Ford, Reagan, offers alternate histories of modern American history.

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'Then Everything Changed': Big Moments in American History

Thursday, March 10, 2011

Historians usually stick to facts, but sometimes it’s fun to play the "what if" game with history. What if president-elect John F. Kennedy had been assassinated in December 1960? What if Robert Kennedy had lived through Sirhan Sirhan's attempt on his life and became president in 1968? What if Gerald Ford had corrected a misstep in the 1976 presidential debate with Jimmy Carter and won a second term?

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