Showing posts with label The Great Depression. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Great Depression. Show all posts

Wednesday, September 16, 2009

Tuesday, April 21, 2009

Why You've Never Heard of the Great Depression of 1920

This is a long video--50 minutes . However, if you are interested in economic history and specifically the Great Depression, you should enjoy this.

Wednesday, January 28, 2009

On Herbert Hoover...

Jeff Perren over at Shaving Leviathan has updated his post "The Myth of 'Hands-Off' Hoover" which is a must read for those of you curious about certain aspects of the Great Depression that you will not find in those old high school text books.

Friday, January 9, 2009

The Road to Serfdom

Prof. Thomas E. Woods explores the reason why the Great Depression lasted for as long as it did: Interventionist economics. We may be on the road to serfdom today because the federal government is adopting similiar policies to those implemented during the 1930's in order to dig the economy out of its current woes.



HT: Liberty Pen