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What are Franklin D Roosevelt's mistakes according to Amity Shlaes?
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FDR made no mistakes and should be recognized as the greatest president the United States has ever had.
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When was Amity Shlaes born?
Amity Shlaes was born on September 10, 1960, in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA.
What has the author Jared Shlaes written?
Jared Shlaes has written: 'Real estate counseling in a plain brown wrapper' -- subject(s): Real estate counselors
What actors and actresses appeared in John Stossel Goes to Washington - 2001?
The cast of John Stossel Goes to Washington - 2001 includes: Amity Shlaes as herself John Stossel as Himself - Host
What actors and actresses appeared in The Character of Calvin Coolidge - 2011?
The cast of The Character of Calvin Coolidge - 2011 includes: David Pietrusza as himself Amity Shlaes as herself John Van Til as himself
What actors and actresses appeared in The Contenders - 2011?
The cast of The Contenders - 2011 includes: Paul Clement as himself Brian Lamb as himself Richard Norton Smith as himself David Pietrusza as himself Amity Shlaes as herself Peter Slen as himself Susan Swain as herself
What movie and television projects has Amity Shlaes been in?
Amity Shlaes has: Played Herself - Interviewee in "To the Contrary" in 1992. Played herself in "The Daily Show" in 1996. Played Herself - Author in "Fox and Friends" in 1998. Played herself in "John Stossel Goes to Washington" in 2001. Played herself in "Landslide: A Portrait of President Herbert Hoover" in 2009. Played herself in "Glenn Beck" in 2009. Played Herself - Author in "Hannity" in 2009. Played herself in "When the World Breaks" in 2010. Played herself in "Generation Zero" in 2010. Played herself in "The Contenders" in 2011. Played herself in "The Character of Calvin Coolidge" in 2011. Played Himself - Panelist in "Testing Milton Friedman" in 2012. Played Herself (2013) in "The Ultimate Guide to the Presidents" in 2013. Played Herself - Author, Coolidge in "The Independents" in 2013.
What actors and actresses appeared in The Ultimate Guide to the Presidents - 2013?
The cast of The Ultimate Guide to the Presidents - 2013 includes: Jonathan Alter as Himself (2013) James Baker III as Himself (2013) Richard Brookhiser as Himself (2013) James Carville as Himself (2013) Michael Flamm as Himself (2013) Allen Guelzo as himself Harold Holzer as Himself (2013) Zachary Karabell as Himself (2013) Bruce McGill as Narrator Barry Paris as Himself (2013) David Pietrusza as Himself (2013) Donald Ritchie as Himself (2013) Amity Shlaes as Herself (2013) Nina Silber as herself
What actors and actresses appeared in When the World Breaks - 2010?
The cast of When the World Breaks - 2010 includes: Buzz Aldrin as himself Kaine Alozie Andrew Alozie Richard Anderson as himself Willie Barrow as herself Jerry Beck Heather Becker as herself James Bedoian Timuel Black as himself Heather Boushey as herself Ray Bradbury as himself Luis Cancel Phyllis Diller as herself Paul Dooley as himself Hugh Downs as himself Fyvush Finkel as himself Seth Glickenhaus as himself Monty Hall as himself Gabriel Hap Navarro as himself Takeo Hoshi as himself Takatoshi Ito as himself Jesse Jackson as himself James Karen as himself Dacher Keltner as himself Janet Klein as herself Carla Laemmle as herself Jack LaLanne as himself Art Linkletter as himself Andrew Luan Christine Marchuska as herself Al Martinez as himself Eric Maskin as himself Cletus Nelson Lee Ohanian as himself Miles Orvell as himself Mickey Rooney as himself Tim Samuelson as himself Amity Shlaes as herself Jerry Stiller as himself Ian Whitcomb as himself Tyrus Wong as himself
What actors and actresses appeared in The Independents - 2013?
The cast of The Independents - 2013 includes: Katie Aselton as herself Guy Benson as Himself - Political Editor, Townhall.com David Boaz as Himself - Exec. V-P, Cato Institute Timothy Carney as Himself - Political Columnist, Washington Examiner Kmele Foster as Himself - Co-Host Jeff Frazee as Himself - Executive Director, Young Americans for Liberty Nick Gillespie as Himself - Editor-in-Chief, Reason.com Brooke Goldstein as Herself - Director, Lawfare Project Glenn Greenwald as Himself - Investigative Journalist Carl Hart as Himself - Assoc. Prof of Psychology Gene Healy as Himself - Cato Institute Vice-President Scottie Hughes as Herself - News Director, Tea Party News Network Sarah Isgur Flores as Herself - RNC Deputy Communications Director Santita Jackson as Herself - Fox News Contributor Glenn Jacobs as Himself - WWE Wrestler Penn Jillette as himself Lisa Kennedy Montgomery as Herself - Co-Hostess Steve Leser as Himself - Panelist (Democratic Strategist and Radio Host) Jo Ling Kent as Herself - Fox Business Reporter Kurt Loder as Himself - Reason.com Movie Critic Dagen McDowell as Herself - Fox Business Rob McDowell as Himself - Former FCC Commissioner Gavin McInnes as himself Andrew Napolitano as Himself - Fox News Senior Judicial Analyst Lynda Obst as herself Ted Poe as himself Virginia Postrel as Herself - Former Editor, Reason Magazine Geraldo Rivera as Himself - Fox News Senior Correspondent Damon Root as Himself - Senior Editor, Reason Magazine Christy Setzer as Herself - Democratic Strategist Buck Sexton as Himself - National Security Editor, The Blaze Tom Shillue as himself Amity Shlaes as Herself - Author, Coolidge Sherrod Small as himself Basil Smikle as Himself - Democratic Strategist Peter Suderman as Himself - Senior Editor, Reason Magazine Jesse Walker as Himself - Author, The United States of Paranoia Lis Wiehl as herself
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Did Capitalism cause the Great Depression?
The causes of the depression are generally acknowledged to be a complex question.School textbooks like my 1980s The World this Century: Working With Evidence say the Depression was caused by the rise in profits surpassing that of wages to such an extent that commodity stocks increased beyond what the public could buy ("Had wages kept pace with profits between 1923 and 1929 this situation might never have arisen. Profits rose by 72% whereas wages rose by only 8%"). The World this Century also mentions the invention of hire puchase as increasing sales of consumer durables in the short term, but causing problems for workers who could not pay off their debts in the long term.Radical Trotskyists like Socialist Alternative, the International Socialist Organisation and the Democratic Socialist Party argue that the Depression is a reflection of the boom/bust cycle inherent in a system of private ownership and profit, which they oppose to a system of ownership by the producers (ie. workers) themselves. Trotskyists argue that bosses wil always seek to take more from workers and that this leads eventually to a reduction in the level of profit, due to production beyond what workers can buy. They argue that there are mechanisms to restructure most forms of capitalism in crisis, but that crisis is inherent in capitalism.Austrians like Human Events and the Mises Institute, in contrast, argue that capitalism did not in any way cause the Great Depression. Defining capitalism as strict laissez-faire, they believe that a boom/bust cycle is not inherent in a free market because a free market will always judge what are viable investments better than any alternative. Austrians believe the creation of the Federal Reserve (in 1913) led to easy credit making naturally unprofitable investments seemingly profitable and creating a "phantom" boom in the 1920s which had to be corrected.Before I leave this point, there are many other explanations of the Great Depression. Some historians have argued it to be caused by the deflation necessary to get the United Kingdom back on the gold standard after it had moved away from that system in the urgent call for a larger money supply during World War I. Monetarist or Chicago School economists, whilst free-market like the Austrian School, argue quite differently about bank policy.Alternatively, recent scholarly works by economists like Amity Shlaes in her book: The Forgotten Man suggest that the uncertainty created by government actions were almost totally to blame for the failures that led to and extended the Great Depression. These failures were sevenfold:1) The Stock Market Crash:The economy did very well during the 1920's. Calvin Coolidge's "hands-off" policy towards the economy resulted in massive growth and prosperity. Unfortunately, this led to a lot of people who had no idea what they were doing pouring money in to the market. Naturally, this drove stock prices up. As the prices rose, more and more people became convinced they could get rich by pouring their money in to the market as well, and did so.Impact: Many people took a very big financial hit, and banks and investors who were not careful collapsed or went bankrupt. People became very nervous about investing, banks and financial institutions. This contributed to bank runs (Point #3)2) Smoot-HawleyHerbert Hoover was a big believer in tariffs (a tax on imported goods.) He was convinced that this tariff would help American products compete and make America more self-sufficient. He was wrong. He helped push one of the largest tariffs in history through Congress, and almost every nation on Earth immediately imposed a retaliatory tariff on the United States. Our exports dropped precipitously overnight.Impact: We could not export our way out of the Depression.3) The Money Supply:When the economy is in trouble, the Federal Reserve generally makes money more available so that it will be easier for people to get a loan to start or expand a business. This is called a counter-cyclical policy. As the GDP drops, the Fed prints more money. As the economy grows, they buy money back, and take it out of circulation. Hoover pursued a pro-cyclical monetary policy. What does this mean? When the economy was in trouble, he restricted the money supply. This made it extremely difficult for banks to loan any money to anybody, or to keep a decent reserve on -hand. Any difficulty for the bank could result in a "run," a large number of people lining up to withdraw all of their money from the bank. Since banks only hold a small portion of their customer's money in the bank at any given time, many banks collapsed. Since the money supply was restricted, wages began to fall, and people found themselves unable to repay loans or mortgages.Impact: Instability in the banking system, numerous bank runs and deflation.4) Attacks on Short Sellers: Both Hoover and FDR attacked short-sellers as unpatriotic. Short-sellers bet on the price of a given stock dropping. One of the fundamentals of any market is that you have to be able to bet on the price going both ways, or a given stock will never find its proper price level. Because of the attacks on short-sellers, this activity virtually stopped, and nobody was certain whether the price levels on the market were accurate or not.Impact: Risk has a cost, and the stock market did not rebound very quickly because of all of the people who were wondering when or if it would hit bottom.5) Taxes: FDR raised taxes dramatically everywhere he could. President Coolidge lowered them, and people realized they could keep more of what they earned. Not surprisingly, they worked harder and produced a boom. FDR raised them, and people stopped working as hard. Moreover, FDR talked about raising several other taxes, creating fear that people would be able to keep even less of what they earned. Naturally, people cut back the amount of new business investment and work that they did.Impact: The uncertainty caused by FDR's tax policy resulted in fewer new businesses, and fewer hours worked by professionals.6) Regulatory Burden:Regulations cost money. If you know in-advance what regulations you are going to face in a given business, you can plan for the future. If you have no idea what is coming tomorrow, you are likely to avoid expanding your business, or simply to shut it down. FDR and his cronies regulated the heck out of anything they chose, and they frequently chose at random. Many of the regulations were massive expansions of government power that went well-beyond anything the government had ever done before, so people had no idea what to expect.Impact: Paralysis for some businesses, death for others.7) Unions:FDR was a big believer in unions. He passes several very influential laws that made unions far-more powerful, and far-more easy to organize. These unions resulted in great jobs for a few people, but far-fewer jobs overall. They also reduced the efficiency of the businesses that had to deal with them, meaning they had trouble competing and their prices had to rise.Impact: Many fewer jobs created, and many uncompetitive businesses.
