{"id":7207,"date":"2009-12-09T04:12:20","date_gmt":"2009-12-09T10:12:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oooorgle.com\/wordpress\/?p=7207"},"modified":"2016-12-09T07:29:17","modified_gmt":"2016-12-09T14:29:17","slug":"great-myths-of-the-great-depression","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/great-myths-of-the-great-depression\/","title":{"rendered":"Great Myths of the Great Depression"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mackinac.org\/archives\/2009\/GMyths2009FINALweb.pdf\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/images\/GreatDepression.jpg\" alt=\"\" hspace=\"5\" align=\"left\" \/>Mackinac.org<\/a> | Students today are often given a skewed account of the Great Depression of 1929-1941 that condemns free-market capitalism as the cause of, and promotes government intervention as the solution to, the economic hardships of the era. In this essay based on a popular lecture, Mackinac Center for Public Policy President Lawrence W. Reed debunks the conventional view and traces the central role that poor government policy played in fostering this legendary catastrophe.<\/p>\n<p>URL: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mackinac.org\/archives\/2009\/GMyths2009FINALweb.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.mackinac.org\/archives\/2009\/GMyths2009FINALweb.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"645\" height=\"500\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oooorgle.com\/downloads\/GreatMythsoftheGreatDepression.pdf\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><br clear=left><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Ta2m3D9Ig0g\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/Ta2m3D9Ig0g\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/youtu.be\/Ta2m3D9Ig0g<\/a><\/p>\n<p><br clear=left><\/p>\n<p>Also See:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/2xAGPpgK534\" target=\"_blank\">Myths Surrounding Unions and the Great Depression<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mackinac.org | Students today are often given a skewed account of the Great Depression of 1929-1941 that condemns free-market capitalism as the cause of, and promotes government intervention as the solution to, the economic hardships of the era. In this essay based on a popular lecture, Mackinac Center for Public Policy President Lawrence W. Reed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[290,295],"tags":[190],"class_list":["post-7207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book","category-video","tag-great-depression"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7207\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}