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The "New Deal" helped extend the Great Depression for 10 years More on this, here: http://www.engdahl.oilgeopolitics.net/History/New_Deal/new_deal.html http://www.engdahl.oilgeopolitics.net/History/New_Deal/new_d... Why eight years of Roosevelt economic policy produced such disastrous economic recovery results, is the crucial question. The answer appears to be that the group of men who advised the President on economic and social policy during the peace years of the Depression, were focussed on a broad social agenda, one of using the depression crisis to shift the United States from a market economy, which they contemptuously termed "laissez-faire capitalism," towards a State-dominated economy of central planning.