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To: bruiser98 who wrote (114063)10/10/2010 12:10:35 AM
From: Joe Btfsplk2 Recommendations  Respond to of 116555
 
It was 30 years after Roosevelt was inaugurated and 19 years after he died that a couple of academics pinned the cause on erroneous currency management begun under Hoover (and Mellon), then magnified under FDR - that combined with other ad hoc interventions that worsened an ugly situation. In that interval a lot of bad analysis achieved bedrock status that persists to this day. Arguments still rage, but other views are worthy of examination.

I consider the income disparity arguments specious and hackneyed, but that's me.

There's a load of literature in conflict with your links. Several fairly brief articles:

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Amity Shlaes did a pretty decent compilation with The Forgotten Man, worth the read if this stuff interests you.