Building a bridge to 1933:
● “FDR’s policies prolonged Depression by 7 years, UCLA economists calculate.”
— Headline at UCLA Newsroom, August 10th, 2004.
— Headline at London Daily Mail, today.
As Jonah Goldberg wrote in 2010, “Liberalism has become a cargo cult to the New Deal, but many of the achievements of the New Deal would be impossible now. Just try to get a Hoover Dam built today.”
When does the cargo cult end?
Update: Possibly here: Let’s ban profits!
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