Great Depression in the United States
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Overview
The early 1920s
The severest bout of deflation ever experienced in the United States was not during the Great Depression, but a decade earlier in 1920-21 when wholesale prices fell by 56% in a little over a year
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There was nothing unexpected about the later turndown in the economy, on the contrary, by the time it happened a great deal of thought had been put into how to deal with it when it came.
Boom
Slump
Rescue
References
- ↑ Milton Friedman and Anna Schwartz A Monetary History of the United States 1867-1960 (p. 289), Princeton University Press for NBER, 1963
- ↑ Allan Meltzer: A History Of The Federal Reserve, Volume I: 1913–51, University Of Chicago Press, 2003
- ↑ Peter Temin Did Monetary Forces Cause the Great Depression, W W Norton, 1976
- ↑ Business Cycles and Unemployment, Report and Recommendations of a Committee of the President's Conference on Unemployment, McGraw Hill, 1923
- ↑ Historical Background and Development of Social Security, Social Security Administration 2008
- ↑ John Kenneth Galbraith The Great Crash 1929, Penguin Books 1992