The bottom line: “In short, although the situation in January of 1932 was visibly more dire than it is now, Congress was less willing to hand over utter independent authority to the Hoover administration.”
That’s via Brad DeLong. Friends don’t let friends write $700 billion blank checks to the Bush administration.
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