[Onkel Neal]

Yeah. This is a good follow up article on the diary.

“The only way to break the economic deadlock brought on by the Depression was to shock it back to life,” said Mr. Brinkley, who then added that for all of Roosevelt’s willingness to experiment and spend, the reason the Depression lasted so long was that the president didn’t spend enough.

That, of course, is what most people believe today — and that dogma is the reason the government last year threw literally trillions of dollars at the banking system to keep it from collapsing.