The world is full of scraps of paper today. - Benjamin Anderson, economist, Chase Manhattan Bank (1920 - 1939) April 1933 found America mired in a crushing economic depression, and newly elected...
C.J. Maloney
C.J. Maloney has more than a quarter century of experience in the financial industry. The opinions expressed here are those of the author alone and not any of his employers, future, past nor present. He is the author of Back to the Land: Arthurdale, FDR’s New Deal and the Costs of Economic Planning (Wiley, 2011) and is currently working on a book regarding the origins of the Federal Reserve System. He may be reached at cjmaloney69@gmail.com
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From the Roaring Twenties to the "great moderation," America has always shown a flair for labeling things, and speculative manias are no exception. Historians remember the ignorant, blissfully happy...
This is the true story of Arthurdale, West Virginia, a town created as a "pet project" of the Roosevelts. Designed to be (in the words of Eleanor Roosevelt) "a human experiment station", she was to create a "New American" citizen who would embrace a
