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To: Taxman

The roots of the Great Depression went to the farm depression of the 1920s, when Wall Street was roaring. Farming was a much bigger share of the economy then.

Smoot-Hawley was a response to the market crash and merely restored the traditional American tariffs that had prevailed until President Wilson.


63 posted on 02/28/2017 4:06:46 AM PST by jjotto ("Ya could look it up!")
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To: jjotto

See my post #62.


66 posted on 02/28/2017 8:21:08 PM PST by Taxman
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