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The RFC (Reconstruction Finance Corporation) was established by Congress in 1932. It was Hoover's desire to have the RFC lend money to banks, railroads, and other key economic institutions to make sure these institutions would remain in business. The idea was to help these businesses that had a shortage of capital. The RFC was not popular because the public viewed it as government helping big business at the expense of the workers who were earning less and the unemployed. It was based on Andrew Mellon's "trickle-down economics" but the problem was that little money trickled down to the average American.

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