great depression

Slightly OT, but I saw it mentioned before that the FDR administration during the Great Depression supported giving tax dollars to farmers to persuade them to burn excess crops to keep prices artificially high while much of the country was facing famine. I tried looking into this further but...

Know any old folks? Read any good books on it? Post the good stuff here! You don't need a pressure cooker to can. The main thing about canning is heat the food up to the temperature where you've killed the microorganisms, get it in the jar and seal the lid. Don't do it while it's way too...

"Let me end my talk by abusing slightly my status as an official representative of the Federal Reserve," he said. "I would like to say to Milton and Anna: Regarding the Great Depression. You're right, we (the Federal Reserve) did it. We're very sorry. But thanks to you, we won't do it again."...

This article was written FOUR YEARS AGO, but it reads like - well, you'll see. Some highlights: http://www.newsroom.ucla.edu/portal/ucla/FDR-s-Policies-Prolonged-Depression-5409.aspx?RelNum=5409

That other thread with the quotes from the depression got me thinking.... How did the stock market act just prior to the great depression......? Seems like they had a stock bubble extremely similar to our housing bubble, and also ignored warnings about speculation. The dollar is no...

I keep reading news articles saying "Sweeping reform not seen since the Great Depression," yet for all of FDR's policies, they didn't accrue to be a $700 billion bailout package for corporations, along with the hundreds of billions of dollars to absorb Bear Sterns, socialize the mortgage...

What do you guys make of this guy's analysis?

Great video, should be combined with some Ron Paul / Campaign for liberty info http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=great%20depression&ie=UTF-8&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&sa=N&tab=wv#

Hey I found a site with alot of Ebooks ... I noticed there was one about the great depression and figured somebody would like to read it. I also noticed on the related books they had alot of them on monetary theory also ...

Anyone every read any of them?

I've read lots of conflicting theories, but I was wondering if there was a somewhat quick summary. Particularly the role of the Fed Reserve. A socialist friend and I were arguing politics over beer. I was holding my own on economics until we came to the depression. He mentioned that the...

http://www.fee.org/PUBLICATIONS/THE-FREEMAN/article.asp?aid=1449 Thought some of you might fine the article interesting. It was written in 1988.

A history professor says: Great Depression was caused by: lack of federal involvement (too much fraud/not much oversight) and top heavy distribution of income (rich got richer compared to poor people-- Hedge funds?). He said if RP was to be president today-- there would be less federal...

Ron Paul vindicated yet again. Quotes from a speech given by Helicopter Ben in 2002: At a Nov. 8, 2002, conference to honor Friedman's 90th birthday, Bernanke, then a Federal Reserve governor, gave a speech at Friedman's old home base, the University of Chicago. Here's a bit of what Bernanke...

Bernanke - Federal Reserve caused Great Depression That goes along nicely with Paul's continued assertion of the same, even as recently as last night on Kudlow. Ron Paul is vindicated again.

Bernanke: Federal Reserve caused the Great Depression Fed chief says, 'We did it. … very sorry, won't do it again' World Net Daily March 19, 2008 SOURCE: http://worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=59405 ..

...were it not for the fact that the Dust Bowl Days had begun. The Breadbasket of the World is, in many ways, the real wealth of this superpower nation. Today the Breadbasket of the World, after years of family farmers being battered by the traders, trying to convert itself into the new source...

Part I http://www.doctorhousingbubble.com/personal-story-by-a-lawyer-from-a-previous-asset-bubble-can-we-learn-from-the-past-and-how-will-the-housing-decline-impact-you/ Part II...

The Great Depression in the 1930's is the ultimate standard of how terribly wrong our economy could go. Some people talk like it could happen again. Do you think we will ever see 25% unemployment, bread lines, massive poverty? Or will our technological advancements prevent that from happening again?

In the years after WW I and before the stock market crash of 1929, the Fed was used to help bring England out of a depression. The approach taken was to transfer American wealth to England by establishing artificially low interest rates and inflating the money supply, weakening the dollar...