Prices rise. People blame capitalism. Politicians promise "solutions." President Donald Trump wants to cap credit card interest rates. My socialist mayor wants to freeze rents. Sen. Elizabeth Warren ...

More than half a decade into the Great Depression, an Indiana commentator published a sad little profile of his fellow American. “Who is the ‘forgotten man’ in ...

John Stossel’s recent column claiming that New Deal reforms did not bring the United States out of the Depression appalled me. The Great Depression caused worldwide economic, social and political ...

During the Great Depression, President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal launched the Works Progress Administration, or WPA. The Federal Arts Project, one of the WPA’s programs, hired around 10,000 ...

America is drowning in bank failures, mass unemployment, and collapsing prices when Franklin D. Roosevelt is sworn in on March 4, 1933. Hoover’s efforts have failed, veterans have been driven from ...

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Historical myths and economic fallacies are stubborn. They are also easily repeated. Perhaps one of the most stubborn myths—and other myths related to it—is that Roosevelt’s New Deal policies brought ...

In the midst of the Great Depression, Franklin Delano Roosevelt campaigned on a platform that would bring radical change to America: a package of policies he called the New Deal. The New Deal ...

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