
Ep 108 | Am I Castrating Libertarians? | Guest: Gene Epstein
The Political Orphanage
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The US Economy Before 1913
We have a pretty good record of what happened to the US economy before 1913 going back to 1870. So that's a 43 year period, pretty substantial number of years in the US economy. We can even go further back where data get a little bit more impressionistic. And so, and then in addition, by the way, we could compare the said not by forgiving it, the Great Depression, as you said, in the 1930s,. Just ask how it's done since World War II starting in 1946. According to every conceivable criterion, inflation, unemployment, economic stability, according to every way in which you would evaluate said performance, this country has done worse under the Obama administration than when
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