Possibly linux@lemmy.zip to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 days agoBarack Obama is the youngest living former or active presidentmessage-squaremessage-square34linkfedilinkarrow-up1217arrow-down18file-text
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minus-squareMinnesotaGoddam@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·edit-25 days agoYou’re a decade off for the great depression you aren’t an economist unless you have devoted an entire year of your life to studying the great depression and have your own pet theory as to why it happened. mine is, and it’s a fairly accepted position (note this article is on Bretton Woods, which is what came out of the ashes of WW2 and the great depression. the explanation of what caused the great depression is the context of the article.), that the united states was on the the gold standard, which essentially caused a currency war.
You’re a decade off for the great depression
you aren’t an economist unless you have devoted an entire year of your life to studying the great depression and have your own pet theory as to why it happened. mine is, and it’s a fairly accepted position (note this article is on Bretton Woods, which is what came out of the ashes of WW2 and the great depression. the explanation of what caused the great depression is the context of the article.), that the united states was on the the gold standard, which essentially caused a currency war.