Tag: great depression

• Embarrassing Quotes from History: Herbert Hoover

  If ever a politician promised the moon but could only deliver a malaria and crocodile infested swamp, it was Herbert Hoover. Here’s what he said about American prosperity: “We in America are nearer to the final triumph over poverty than ever before.” Though you can’t really blame him. No one saw or predicted what was…

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  January 15, 2016

  History & Culture, Know Your History

  buying on margin, causes of the Great Depression, crooked pools, FDR. Smoot-Hawley, great depression, Hoover, stock market crash

• Know Your History: FDR’s Big Mistake

  Franklin Delano Roosevelt was well-liked in many circles, revered in others, and generally looked upon in a favorable manner by historians. Of course, there are those on the right who criticize his big government model of the 1930s, which greatly expanded government power and reach – something we can all agree hasn’t been diminished since.…

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  January 27, 2015

  History & Culture

  1930s, Agricultural Adjustment Act, FDR court-packing, great depression, New Deal, Roosevelt, supreme court

• An Economic View of the Roaring 20s.

  With The  Great Gatsby in the theater, I thought I’d post an essay I wrote a while back summarizing Frank Stricker’s view of the economic policies of the 1920s and what they might have meant for Reaganomics of the 1980s. This is a fact back essay highlighting Stricker’s point of view only, and not necessarily…

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  June 1, 2013

  History & Culture

  economics of the 1920s, frank Stricker, great depression, reaganomics, roaring 20s