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FDR's policies prolonged Depression by 7 years, UCLA economists calculate / UCLA Newsroom
Key phrases to note in this study:
1. “We found that a relapse isn’t likely unless lawmakers gum up a recovery with ill-conceived stimulus policies.”
2. “The fact that the Depression dragged on for years convinced generations of economists and policy-makers that capitalism could not be trusted to recover from depressions and that significant government intervention was required to achieve good outcomes,” Cole said. “Ironically, our work shows that the recovery would have been very rapid had the government not intervened.”
I hope we remember this over the next few years.
