Saturday, January 17, 2009

Leave the New Deal in the History Books

Mr. Obama's policy plans are driven by the conventional economic wisdom that the New Deal economic programs ended the Great Depression. Not so. In fact, thanks to New Deal policies and programs, the U.S. economy faltered for years longer than it might otherwise have done.

Mark Levey on FDR's New Deal (it didn't work) and some suggestions for Mr. Obama so as not to repeat the failure.

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