Without government intervention, the Great Depression would have ended in 1936 instead of 1943. If FDR unnecessarily prolonged the Great Depression, thank the Federal Reserve Bank for starting it.

Did FDR End the Depression? ... and each has used FDR's New Deal as a model for expanding the government. It's a myth. FDR did not get us out of the Great Depression—not during the 1930s, ...

According to Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, "Only with the New Deal's rehabilitation of the financial system in 1933-35 did the economy begin its slow emergence from the Great Depression." ...

But the very same kinds of policies that were tried-- and failed-- during the 1930s are being carried out in Washington today, with the advocates of such policies often invoking FDR's New Deal as ...

You don’t often expect a casual choice for summer reading to challenge your long-held view of the world, but that’s exactly what happened to me in reading Jim Powell’s book &#8220… ...

During the Great Depression, African Americans were disproportionately affected by unemployment: they were the first fired and the last hired. After Roosevelt was elected, he began to institute ...

It was called “Black Monday.” On May 27, 1935, the Supreme Court struck down three of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s signature New Deal laws. FDR was outraged. He believed the Supreme ...

FDR Made the Depression Great Again. How the blue eagle, symbol of a 1933 law, ... In September 1933, 1.5 million people lined the streets of New York City for a nine-hour Blue Eagle parade.

New Deal Programs Helped End the Great Depression. By Scott Lewis. ... New York Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt was the first governor to publicly endorse the idea of unemployment insurance.

Find out about FDR's radical plan to pull America out of the Great Depression. Show more In 1932, amidst the Great Depression, Franklin D. Roosevelt was elected the 32nd President of the United ...

President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s “New Deal” helped raise America’s economy out of the Great Depression in the 1930s and set the country on course to become a superpower.