For those of you who read the Goldberg File last week, but want something more authoritative or comprehensive than my mad scribblings, I heartily recommend you check out Steve Horwitz’s Cato Backgrounder on Herbert Hoover (weirdly, it came out the same day as the Goldberg File). It’s a great resource.
Wow. So, connecting the findings of Jonah's magnum opus with Horwitz' brilliant deducing, we now know that leftists in the 1930's and 1940's who called Hoover a fascist were correct after all. They just didn't know it was cuz Hoover was exactly like FDR.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseHoover invented the New Deal, but the other party took control after the mid-term election and refused to pass his economic bills, theorizing that a worse economy would benefit them. Hoover lost re-election and the other party passed the legislation and took credit for the recovery.
Interesting.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseIntersting points, but I see some typical Cato claptrap. Hoover's restriction of immigration didn't prolong the depression.
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