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As to FDR - David Bieto wrote The New Deal's War on the Bill of Rights: The Untold Story of FDR's Concentration Camps, Censorship, and Mass Surveillance

The New Deal's War on the Bill of Rights: The Untold Story of FDR's Concentration Camps, Censorship, and Mass Surveillance . A good book, I recommend it.

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Very cool.

I first found out in the 70s when I heard about Walter Williams' research. But gosh, looks like Myrdal beat him by 30 some years.

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Oct 18Liked by David R. Henderson

Great quotes. I did not know that Myrdal could be a good economisté

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“Tell me again why FDR was such a great president.”

Robert Graboyes has the answer here. With which I reluctantly must agree.

https://substack.com/@graboyes/p-148079379

FDR: “led Allies to victory (more than compensating for awful economic policies).“

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I agree with Graboyes that FDR did that. I think the Soviets would have ground down Hitler even without the U.S.

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Tell me why FDR was such a great president. Ask Joe Stiglitz. Lee Ohanian of the Hoover wrote that nearly ten thousand fast-food jobs were lost in California because of minimum wage increase to $20. Newsom signed it into law. Some ignorance is intertemporal.

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Yes, but a lot of upper-middle class high school students who had/have a big fraction of the jobs that remained earned/earn some additional pocket money.

Getting on the job ladder when you have minimal skills is overrated, anyway…

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Oct 17Liked by David R. Henderson

Because people are always better off when their options are restricted by someone who knows nothing about them and pays no price for being wrong.

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