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FDR’s Folly: How Roosevelt and His New Deal Prolonged the Great Depression

The Great Depression of the 1930s was by far the greatest economic calamity in U.S. history. In 1931, the year before Franklin Roosevelt was elected president, unemployment in the United States had soared to an unprecedented 16.3 percent. In human terms that meant that over eight million Americans who wanted jobs could not find them. [...]

6Jul2010 | Burton W. Folsom Jr. | 2 comments | Continued

Three New Deals: Reflections on Roosevelt’s America, Mussolini’s Italy, and Hitler’s Germany, 1933–1939

By Wolfgang Schivelbusch Reviewed by Richard M. Ebeling

1Jan2007 | FEE Admin | 0 comments | Continued

When the Supreme Court Stopped Economic Fascism in America

Seventy years ago, on May 27, 1935, the U.S. Supreme Court said no to economic fascism in America.The trend toward bigger and ever-moreintrusive government, unfortunately, was not stopped, but the case nonetheless was a significant event that at that time prevented the institutionalizing of a Mussolini-type corporativist system in America. (Correction: Contrary to a statement in this column, young men in the Civilian Conservation Corps were not compelled to join.)

1Oct2005 | Richard M. Ebeling | 4 comments | Continued

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