Rudy Fichtenbaum writes:

>> During the depression the unemployment rate peeked around 25% in 1933.
>> It went down to 15% in 1937. From 1933 to 1936 real federal spending
>> increased increased 100%. (I am looking at index numbers for the
>> quantity of real GDP). Presumable the increase was associated with the
>> New Deal spending and it seems to have worked.

Why do you presume the correlation equals causation?

David Shemano


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