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- From: mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539)
- Subject: Re: taxes, theft, police, etc.
- Message-ID: <1992Sep9.212524.26758@mksol.dseg.ti.com>
- Organization: Texas Instruments Inc
- References: <1992Sep8.120802.21485@tijc02.uucp> <1992Sep8.163829.26922@tijc02.uucp>
- Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 21:25:24 GMT
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- In <1992Sep8.163829.26922@tijc02.uucp> pjs269@tijc02.uucp (Paul Schmidt) writes:
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- >pjs269@tijc02.uucp (Paul Schmidt) writes:
- >: ian@airs.com (Ian Lance Taylor) writes:
- >: : pjs269@tijc02.uucp (Paul Schmidt) writes:
- >: :
- >: : >The
- >: : >great depression of the 1930s happened after the U.S. government removed
- >: : >the dollar from the gold standard.
- >: :
- >: : That is not the usual view. The Great Depression is normally
- >: : considered to have started in 1929. Roosevelt took the U.S. off the
- >: : gold standard in 1933. England and some other European countries had
- >: : already abandoned the gold standard, in 1931.
- >: :
- >: Sorry. I did this from memory. Thanks for correcting me. Sometime about
- >: 15 years before the depression, the U.S. Government did something major.
- >: I thought I remembered it as taking the currency off the gold standard.
- >: It evidently was something else. When I get a chance I will look it up,
- >: or maybe you know what I am talking about.
-
- >The event that I was thinking of was the formation of the Federal
- >Reserve System in 1913. This led to monetary policies that contributed
- >to the depression and the length of the depression. Sorry for the
- >mistake. I did not mean to misinform anyone as to the event.
-
- Quite right. In the monetarist view of the Great Depression, the
- thing that made it as deep and as long-lasting as it was was the fact
- that the Fed contracted the money supply by something like 25%. This,
- of course, reined in the economy even harder; not something you really
- need to do in the middle of a major recession.
-
- --
- "Insisting on perfect safety is for people who don't have the balls to live
- in the real world." -- Mary Shafer, NASA Ames Dryden
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