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Thursday, September 10, 2009

Obama Repeating Mistakes of the ’30s, British Report Finds


“Barack Obama is committing the same mistakes made by policymakers during the Great Depression, according to a new study endorsed by Nobel laureate James Buchanan…. There are ‘troubling similarities’ between the US President’s actions since taking office and those which in the 1930s sent the US and much of the world spiralling into the worst economic collapse in recorded history, says the new pamphlet, published by the Institute of Economic Affairs.” (Telegraph, Thursday)

Hoover-Roosevelt lives!

FEE Timely Classic
“The Mythology of Roosevelt and the New Deal” by Robert Higgs


  • Sheldon Richman is the former editor of The Freeman and a contributor to The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics. He is the author of Separating School and State: How to Liberate America's Families and thousands of articles.