"The recovery from the Great Depression began instantly with Roosevelt’s policy shift, in March 1933. He had changed expectations, and begun an administration t

"The recovery from the Great Depression began instantly with Roosevelt’s policy shift, in March 1933. He had changed expectations, and begun an administration that would use money as a tool to bring widespread prosperity -- rather than serve as a tool of moneyed interests." This is pure economic propaganda. Anyone with a whit of knowledge of the period knows that the depression lasted through the entire 30s, with unemployment remaining very high for the whole decade (it was 19% in 1938)