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Bucky

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14. They're not unrelated.

Reply to sanatanadharma (Reply #13)

Wed Aug 12, 2020, 01:27 PM

Aug 2020

The argument for supply side economics is rooted in money supply, not product supply.

The Great Depression was a mix of laissez faire economics and simply piss poor management decisions, of which anti-unionism was just a single feature.

But the same type of well-educated idiots and gold leeches brought about both disasters.

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Did the 'Spanish flu' (1918-1920) contribute to the Great Depression (1929)? [View all] bobbieinok Aug 2020 OP

Good question! SheltieLover Aug 2020 #1

According to drumpf it ended WW2 lol Takket Aug 2020 #2

Not sure, but according to His Lardship it did end WWII. The Velveteen Ocelot Aug 2020 #3

Spanish Flu pandemic was from 1918-1919. Please correct (Trump keeps saying 1917) hlthe2b Aug 2020 #4

You are correct. There was no Spanish flu, '29 Depression connection. There was a sharp, empedocles Aug 2020 #10

Not in Kansas--and that's where that pandemic really started, or got a foothold Bengus81 Aug 2020 #5

The virus evolved in Kansas, but the surge in its spread was on the Western Front in France Bucky Aug 2020 #9

Sounds to me like supply-side economics... sanatanadharma Aug 2020 #13

They're not unrelated. Bucky Aug 2020 #14

There was a pretty good economic expansion... Wounded Bear Aug 2020 #6

I'm a history teacher. I've never heard the two events connected Bucky Aug 2020 #7

Thank you for your very interesting comment! bobbieinok Aug 2020 #8

Probably not, and I've never heard a non-crackpot economist say it did... TreasonousBastard Aug 2020 #11

No but it did bring World War Two to an end. /s comradebillyboy Aug 2020 #12