The Hoover-Roosevelt policies were a failure that deepened and lengthened the Great Depression.

Big government “conservatives” are wrong about the New Deal.

Large tax increases preceded the Great Depression.

An unambiguously awful economic record.

It’s the cartoon version of Mitchell’s Law.

There they go again.

It’s difficult to promote good economic policy when some policy makers have a deeply flawed grasp of history. This is why I’ve tried to educate people, for instance, that government intervention bears the blame for the 2008 financial crisis, not capitalism or deregulation. Going back in time, I’ve also explained the truth about “sweatshops” and “robber barons.” […]

You know your record as President is abysmal when supporters are reduced to touting how much better you’ve done than Herbert Hoover. But that’s where Obama is at, apparently, as historian Robert McElvaine took to the New York Times a few days ago to make exactly that case. Seeking to combat unfavorable comparisons to the […]