Okay I guess people have been mad about this for a long time but WTF FDR took everyone’s gold !!??
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Why are they talking it up
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because he was a great propagandist and most historians dont understand economics and ed majors are mostly pinkos
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And literal fascism with the forced government labour for the unemployed
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The NRA was pretty much directly modelled on fascist planned economic principles
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it had like two things that worked and they only worked by accident the rest of it was absolutely bananas and probably doubled the duration of the depression
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okay fair but also wasn't that was pretty par for US gold policy in general? species circular? gould fisk?
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They're not the only ones. Hitler praised it!
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Holy Cr@p! I can see why it helped and why it horrified *Trump was a picnic* OMFG "By 1975 Americans could again freely own and trade gold." - Land of the Freehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold_Reserve_Act …
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The most bizarre thing was that people all over the world were buying into cartoon villain economics at that time.
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hahahaha glad we dont do that any more ha ha
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