Message from @trapexit
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Yes, it is. Let the malinvestments clear.
Coolidge did that in '20 / '21
Major crack boom... cut spending... over in less than 18 months
Not quite sure that it saved the US from revolution but it did help the average citizen a lot
Help them by keeping them in a depression for 10+ years?
World War two was what recovered the country
How's that?
You don't create wealth from war
The US did
Pssh. Clearly you never met Rome.
In the US the government threw contracts at everyone with a plant, built new defense plants and made sure everyone had a job
WW2 and the US was a rather unusual circumstance
Jobs != wealth
War can be incredibly profitable, when you have the advantage.
You built cars but your plant got shut down? Now you have a government contract for 1000 tanks
Paying people to dig and fill ditches is not wealth
WW2 is what ultimately recovered everyone from the Depression, in large measure because of the US
This is basic economics
Government got money from where?
Bonds as far as i understand it
Trapexis, the New Deal under Roosevelt was not "make work". Grand Coulee Dam. TVA. Bridges. Lots of infrastructure still in use today.
The New Deal did create wealth. Was it the most efficient method, that can be debated. But it DID create wealth.
Making use of something doesn't mean it wasn't mal investment
It also helped that the US had basically been acting as an arms supplier for the allies and been getting cash in exchange
Unless you're a salmon, the Grand Coulee dam was damn fine investment.
This is econ 101. If the market isn't investing in it it's a mal investment.
TVA - fine investment.
And if the market is investing?
People would have otherwise spent their money in other ways.
Bridges - fine investment
There was no money to spend
Not if people would have wanted other things
The banks were in shambles
Of course there was.
The economy was frozen for lack of money
Banks in shambles was in large part due to government.
They weren't in shambles in Canada
There is no such thing as lack of money
Indirectly, because the gov't didn't regulate banks effectively