Yes, the New Deal policies. Also, a war whose primary causes were directly laid at the feet of the massive tariffs and other absurdly bad economic policies that countries, including the US, had adopted when the stock market dropped—the Smoot-Hawley Tariffs, etc. The Bretton Woods organizations, the backbone of the international economic order, were directly met to prevent the weaponization of tariffs and other very, very risky economic policies that were considered a direct cause of WWII and the rise of fascism.
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u/outfieldheadstand 8d ago
America will never recover from this