More reasons to discount what this author has to say.
Nobody really knows what caused the Great Depression to be so much worse than previous occurances. Nobody know or knows how to end them once they begin (except by war).
Roosevelt's contribution was as much psychological as anything else. He was a fresh face trying new things. Sometimes that's the best humanity can expect.
"Nobody... knows how to end them once they begin..."
Well, you socialist's claim you do.
"He was a fresh face trying new things. Sometimes that's the best humanity can expect."
Do you realize what an empty, pitiful, comment that is in light of the 100 million lives that the presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt was directly and indirectly responsible for, from the Depression until the fall of the Berlin Wall.
Is that all you have to say? "He was a fresh face"!
Umm. I guess you're right there. So was Hitler.
Sometimes that's the best humanity can expect.
Alas.
Many people really do know what caused the great depression in the United States and more learn those reasons each year.
As with most things the cause of the great depression in the United States was a combination of events, all well intended and all wrong. Keep in mind that the world was in depression. The depression in the United States became the great depression with the enactment of the Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act of 1930 while marginal tax rates were increasing.