https://pjmedia.com/eddriscoll/2010/09/26/springtime-for-algore/feed/PJ Media is a leading news site covering culture, politics, faith, homeland security, and more. Our reporters and columnists provide original, in-depth analysis from a variety of perspectives.en-usTue, 09 Jun 2026 21:37:23 -0400<![CDATA[In one of the early chapters of Amity Shlaes&#8217; The Forgotten Man, there&#8217;s a sort of prologue that sets the scene for many of the actions Washington would undertake throughout the 1930s that made a financial depression in 1929 and 1930 into the Great Depression. It would last until (take your pick) the start of World War II &#8212; that economic &#8220;miracle of the 1940s,&#8221; as Paul Krugman would put it. Or, as Michael Barone recently noted, until a newly minted Republican Congressional majority rolled back the worst of the New Deal&#8217;s punitive legislation in 1946, thus launching a post-war economic boom that wouldn&#8217;t completely run out of steam until the mid-1970s, before President Reagan and Paul Volcker jump-started the economy once again.  (Funny how their efforts worked so much more quickly than those of either FDR or the troika of Polosi, Obama and Reid, but I digress.)]]>Sun, 26 Sep 2010 20:34:40 -0400<![CDATA[Ed Driscoll]]>https://pjmedia.com/ed-driscoll/2010/09/26/springtime-for-algore-n252520