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The federal budget: Have we a 'spending orgy'? (Fortune, 1934)
Editor's note: Every Sunday, Fortune publishes a favorite story from our magazine archives. This week, as congressional leaders and the Obama Administration continue with fiscal cliff negotiations, we turn to a feature from December 1934 on the ballooning federal budget during the New Deal era.
The $14,000,000,000 that the President has been given to spend, the national debtthat will shortly be $32,000,000,000, and our present two-year predicted deficit of $9,295,000,000. Should we worry?FORTUNE MORE
Dec 16, 2012 9:30 AM ET -
Antifragility: How disorder makes us stronger
In his latest book, Nassim Taleb celebrates the strengthening effects of stress and chaos.
By Scott Cendrowski, writer-reporter
FORTUNE -- How did Switzerland become the most stable country in history? Its currency, unlike ours, keeps hitting new highs post-crisis, yet Switzerland doesn't have a large central bank working behind the scenes. For that matter, it doesn't have much of a central government. In Antifragile: Things That Gain From Disorder, Nassim Taleb MORE
Dec 14, 2012 7:59 AM ET -
Startups compete to fight childhood obesity
Entrepreneurs are vying for the top spot in The End Childhood Obesity Innovation Challenge, which combines business acumen with healthy eating strategies for kids.
By Erika Fry
FORTUNE -- Ray Newlands calls himself "just a little guy from South Florida." Kids call him "Short Chef". And while those descriptions are physically apt -- he's 5'5'' -- height is not what Newlands is known (or named) for: he wears shorts while he MORE
Dec 13, 2012 10:36 AM ET
