As David Sirota points out the latest right wing revisionist history lie is that the New Deal was a failure and that FDR prolonged the Great Depression.
While some of FDR's policies did not work and some even backfired (especially the policy that caused banks to raise their fractional reserves) the statistics in fact show continual improvement between 1933 and 1937.
These are the numbers:
From the wonderful financial website measuringworth.org:
GDP
U.S real GDP per capita per annum (in 2000 dollars)
1929 $7,099
1930 $6,418
1931 $5,960
1932 $5,152
1933 $5,056
1934 $5,567
1935 $6,021
1936 $6,761
1937 $7,065
1938 $6,769
1939 $7,256
Note that these are 'constant dollars'. As we clearly see, the depression bottomed out in 1933 and there was very large growth up to 1937. Even the recession year of 1938 was 'corrected' in 1939 and the economy per person was slightly larger in 1939 than it was in 1929. Of course, most people still likely felt poorer as in 1929 prior to the crash stocks were worth much more than they were in 1939.
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