The Myth of Wartime Prosperity

The American Connservative ^ | July 10, 2012 | Robert P. Murphy

[arthurus]

Yeah, it was full employment depression. It was followed by the post war recession that didn’t improve until Eisenhower dismantled an encyclopedia of regulations on business and rationalized government. I never thought of him as a conservative until I finally read just what were the things he did.

[TXnMA]

Nothing rare about ‘em for sure...

[arthurus]

assuming the government kept its nose out of as much as possible in the economic sphere. Which it largely did (at least compared to today),

The government did not keep its nose out of the economic sphere after the war. Several years after the war the government under Eisenhower largely removed the government's nose from the economic sphere.