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To: Ilaine who wrote (11976)	12/19/2001 12:31:54 PM
From: Don Lloyd	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

CB - ...One of the reasons the Great Depression is so poorly understood, in my opinion, is that people who study it have theories and philosophies. ... ...Mostly what I want to do is accumulate facts and put them in chronological order. But filtering out writers with a point of view doesn't solve your problem, by any means. What you are left with is often repeaters of so-called 'facts' who do not necessarily give you any insight to the inherent biases of themselves or their sources, or the background in which they wrote. You can deal with this problem if you are continually alert to it, but I would expect that using all sources, while discounting them appropriately, and making your own judgements about the logic of the theories advanced, would be more effective. Regards, Don