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10-13-2019, 05:08 PM #37
Re: Canīt someone please stop Trump from tweeting??
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Re: Canīt someone please stop Trump from tweeting??
I think a good place to start for any student of economics would be "Monetary History of the United States..." by friedman and schwartz. Now I very much agree with the austrian pov which is why I also would ask students to look at Blyth's "Austerity: The History of a Dangerous Idea". Mark is a political scientist which I very much disagree with but I think seeing both perspectives will aid in understanding the economic history of this time period. Both of these should be cheap, although Blyth's book came out in 2013 so it could be pricier.
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10-14-2019, 11:13 AM #39
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BuryRaven... I agree with all of this. FDR did more long term economic damage to the US than any president. I've read quite a bit about him. There is very little to like. Yet we are told it is just "commonplace" that he is one of the greatest presidents of all time! From ONE perspective... I'll agree with that. From nearly every other perspective, he is in the bottom quadrant.
"Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else." -Margaret Mead
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10-14-2019, 11:16 AM #40
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In case his economic policy wasnt bad enough he also started the League of Nations which led to the UN... probably not good long term for the US empire either.
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Re: Canīt someone please stop Trump from tweeting??
I believe that was Wilson who was the architect of the LoN. FDRs economic policy speaks for itself. Jobs programs tend to be horrible because they don't actually produce much. The land utilizing TVA electricity was worse off economically than the surrounding land that saw private energy expansion.
"economic growth in bordering states, where people didn't get their electricity from the TVA, equaled or surpassed growth within the Tennessee Valley" and this was done in under 50 years. Income per person annualized, in Georgia surpassed the TVA region by the mid 40s.
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10-14-2019, 05:28 PM #42Regular 1st Stringer
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Re: Canīt someone please stop Trump from tweeting??
No, it is not, what a silly notion even. But I know itīs somehow a popular one on the fringe right. In reality though, it is anti-Trump, not anti-american.
Which socialist countries would that be?
And most of Europe does indeed like a strong America, along with a strong Europe. This decision to withdraw and keep spewing crazt tweet after crazy tweet is doing the opposite.
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10-14-2019, 05:32 PM #43Regular 1st Stringer
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In my opinion you wre never at war with most of these countries per se, save for the inherited wars and Libya, which was an intervention that probably was needed, and it was an international intervention, not Obamas war.
So, which of these countries are you currently NOT having any armed forces or conducting air strikes and drone attacks in then? Iīll tell. Itīs going on still in all of them.
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10-14-2019, 05:34 PM #44Regular 1st Stringer
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10-14-2019, 05:44 PM #45Regular 1st Stringer
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Well, despised would be a strong word, unless youīre a libertarian. All economists that Iīve read anything from that despise him are libertarian and despise practically any and everything that would even insinuate any intervention into the free market. Most of them also would be heavily influenced by von Mises or Friedman for example.
There was no sole reason for exiting the great depression, but many, of which the war was the biggest one of course. But several of Roosevelts policies worked, but of course he did increase the state, he did regulate banks and markets, minimum wages etc. A libertarian would always hate that. Me as a social democrat will always tend to like it...
If we are to try and have some common starting point perhaps? Íīve read some, although not much compared to you Iīm sure.
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10-14-2019, 05:48 PM #46Regular 1st Stringer
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That was Wilson, but he was indeed in on creating the UN. And I must say I find it deeply disturbing that so many right wingers here only seem to have contempt for the UN. Do you even know what they do on a daily basis? How much has become better and easier becasue of it? You only seem to think of the in the council, but the UN is so much more. What theyīve done for world health for example is something often overlooked.
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