Roosevelt’s policies were a continuation of Hoover’s. No surprise that they both extended the depression.
Roosevelt was working behind the scenes for war with Japan. No wonder he was the only one preparing for war.
No comment on this CT.
It’s difficult to take seriously a Wall Street Journal opinion piece on the Great Depression that presents no charts, no tables and no mention of output or unemployment rates. Instead, they talk about hours worked per person. I’m not surprised that there was an expansion of part time work during the depression, but the authors must have known that the picture they depicted was incomplete.
From Margo (1993) here are 2 estimates of depression unemployment. All of them fell following March 1933. Note the bump in 1938, consistent with mainstream data-driven views on fiscal and monetary policy.
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Your citation was embarrassing and its authors clearly intended to mislead the reader.
Cite?
Did Rockefeller even approve of the New Deal?
Tip: Never, ever use the WSJ as a cite for that kind of proposition. It destroys your credibility.
As for mainstream economists, they’re mostly on the New Deal side, still.
Well, yes, except for almost every single fucking thing FDR’s first term is remembered for.
:rolleyes: That shit again?!
With regards to Pearl Harbor conspiracy theories, Cecil provided one treatment.
From what I’ve read, while the Navy might have expected some Japanese attack, they had no worries WRT Pearl Harbor because they did not believe the Japanese could strike effectively so far away from their easternmost refueling-base. Pretty much the same way Al-Qaeda managed to pull off 9/11 – no one imagined they could do it.
I repeat.
:mad: C’mon, fessup! Who voted Prohibition?!
Joan Collins in her prime? BOTH Mr and Mrs Roosevelt woulda hit that HARD.
Jim Kirk got there first.
Another vote for FDR. A no-brainer in 1936 if ever there was one.
And Pat Buchanan (if he counts as a historian, which he doesn’t).