FDR Didn't End the Depression

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He only made it worse.

Check this out: In May 1939 the unemployment rate was over twenty percent. Source: Burt Folsom in the WSJ. Amazing datum.

In Europe the rate was a lower twelve percent.

If you haven't read up on the concept of "The Forgotten Man" as first propounded by the great American sociologist William Graham Sumner, you can do so here by a recent Rich Lowery piece.

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