FDR’s Destructive Presidency.

Never underestimate the power of myth.  The presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt has made him into a God-like figure.  To this day, FDR has been deified because he supposedly saved the country from economic ruin during the Great Depression.  Nothing could be further from the truth.  Burton Folsom, Jr., New Deal Or Raw Deal? How […]

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Our recurring economic troubles in this new year will probably get worse.  I’m not a pessimist, but the Obama Administration’s policies come from a school of thought that believes government can solve economic problems.  All administrations from Theodore Roosevelt to George W. Bush, all interfered with the economy in some way.  However none of these […]

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One of my favorite subjects in school was history.   A few months ago I read book review from The New York Sun, a now defunct newspaper about The Forsaken: An American Tragedy in Stalin’s Russia.  This book details a little known tragedy in American history.  During the Great Depression over 2ooo Americans decided to leave the country for Russia in the […]

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