The New Deal was really a series of new deals, spread out over more than six years during the Great Depression — a menu of nationally scaled projects that were one part make-work and many parts ...

According to Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, “Only with the New Deal’s rehabilitation of the financial system in 1933-35 did the economy begin its slow emergence from the Great ...

Harold L. Cole, Lee E. Ohanian, New Deal Policies and the Persistence of the Great Depression: A General Equilibrium Analysis, Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 112, No. 4 (August 2004), pp. 779-816 ...

Participating by remote access from New York City, Eric Rauchway, author of [The Great Depression & the New Deal], talked about the origins of the Great Depression, actions taken by the Roosevelt ...

My seventh-grade son recently wrote a U.S. History paper extolling the virtues of President Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal. “It ended the Great Depression,” he wrote with great certainty.

T he New Deal was experimental and incremental—not ideological. Roosevelt and his advisers were far from the clairvoyant visionaries of legend. They never had a master plan. Rather, in the ...

Summer School 7: The Great Depression, the New Deal and how it changed our economy. August 21, 2024 5:44 PM ET. By . Robert Smith , Alex Goldmark , Audrey Dilling ...

As reported by ENR at the time, while the Depression deepened in the early 1930s, none of the initiatives taken by President Herbert Hoover or Congress did much to help, and some, such as the ...

Willkie tried to make peace with the TVA, but the New Deal’s aim, he came to believe, was to replace private power. Today, private and public power live side by side. In the 1930s, it was war.

The upheaval of the Depression opened the way for Franklin D. Roosevelt to push for sweeping changes in American society through the New Deal.

History 7: The Great Depression, the New Deal and how it changed our economy. season 5, episode 38. August 21, 2024 5:48 PM ET. By . Robert Smith , Alex Goldmark , Audrey Dilling ...