Amity Shlaes - author of 'The Forgotten Man' - on Hoover and the Great Depression

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Uploaded by on Apr 19, 2009

http://www.SwiftEconomics.com/ How did President Hoover govern at the end of the Roaring Twenties, once the stock market crashed? Did government action help the economy or make the depression even greater? Amity Shlaes, the author of "The Forgotten Man," explains the accepted wisdom around the Great Depression and offers another, more complete, account of the time period.

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  • Hoover believed in the gold standard but didn't abolish the Federal Reserve's role in money and was a "Constitutionalist" but delivered high spending, high taxes and bailouts in his administration? Say what?

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