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The New Deal is what put money in the pockets of millions of Americans, enabled unprecedented economic expansion and made the corporations even wealthier.[/quote]
The modern consensus (I know how much you global warming liberals love to trot out that word) among those that have taken a closer look is that FDR significantly prolonged the GD through his many actions to ‘stimulate’ the economy.
The GD really didn’t end until the US entered WWII.
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“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.”
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History repeating itself all over with Obama…the self appointed FDR II.