The Great Recession changed a lot of minds I bet it did. Old study from UCLA: http://newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/FDR-s-Policies-Prolonged-Depression-5409 http:

The Great Recession changed a lot of minds I bet it did. Old study from UCLA: http://newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/FDR-s-Policies-Prolonged-Depression-5409 http://newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/FDR-s-Policies-Prolonged-D... Two UCLA economists say they have figured out why the Great Depression dragged on for almost 15 years, and they blame a suspect previously thought to be beyond reproach: President Franklin D. Roosevelt. After scrutinizing Roosevelt's record for four years, Harold L. Cole and Lee E. Ohanian conclude in a new study that New Deal policies signed into law 71 years ago thwarted economic recovery for seven long years. Edit: missed an important quote "Ironically, our work shows that the recovery would have been very rapid had the government not intervened."