"The New Deal made investment in America a risky project," says economist Donald J. Boudreaux, author of The Triumph of ...

…Only if you ignore the numbers. Here’s the graph of GDP for the period. FDR took office in March 1933. The brief backslide in 1938 was when FDR tried to balance the budget. He soon realized it was a ...

Prices rise. People blame capitalism. Politicians promise “solutions.” President Donald Trump wants to cap credit card interest rates. My socialist mayor wants to freeze rents. Elizabeth Warren wants ...

When the United States was deep in the grip of the Great Depression, families across the country needed comfort. They wanted something familiar at the dinner table that didn’t drain already tight ...

I N FEBRUARY 1938 John Maynard Keynes wrote a letter to the American president, Franklin Roosevelt. The occasion was America’s missing recovery. The country was eight years into a downturn and five ...

Louisville experienced several major events during the 1930s, including a presidential visit and a catastrophic flood. Franklin D. Roosevelt campaigned for president in Louisville in 1932 amid the ...