usgovernment spending.com
Monday September 28, 2015 
developed by Christopher Chantrill
President

Herbert Hoover

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Congress

71st Congress

James E. Watson

Nicholas Longworth

72nd Congress

John Nance Garner

73rd Congress

Henry T. Rainey

Joseph T. Robinson

74th Congress

Joseph W. Byrns

Robert F. Wagner

75th Congress

Alben Barkley

William B. Bankhead

76th Congress

Carl Hatch

Agencies

National Recovery Administration

Public Works Administration

National Labor Relations Board

Works Progress Administration

Legislation

Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act

Reconstruction Finance Corporation

Revenue Act of 1928

Revenue Act of 1932

Agricultural Adjustment Act

Civilian Conservation Corps

Emergency Banking Relief Act

Glass-Steagall Act

Home Owners' Loan Corporation

National Industrial Recovery Act

Securities Act

Tennessee Valley Authority

Revenue Act of 1934

Revenue Act of 1935

Social Security Act

Wagner Act

Revenue Act of 1936

Rural Electrification Act

Undistributed Profits Tax

Civil Aeronautics Act

Fair Labor Standards Act

Hatch Act

Neutrality Act of 1939

Parties

Democratic Party History

Republican Party History

Elections

1928 US House Elections

1928 US Senate Elections

1930 US House Elections

1930 US Senate Elections

1932 US House Elections

1932 US Senate Elections

1934 US House Elections

1934 US Senate Elections

1936 US House Elections

1936 US Senate Elections

1938 US House Elections

1938 US Senate Elections

Economy

Gold Standard

Great Depression

Wall Street Crash of 1929

Creditanstalt Bank

Recession of 1937

Analysis

Causes of the Great Depression

The Great Depression

Economic Recovery in the Great Depression

Scapegoats

Andrew Mellon

Samuel Insull

Schechter Poultry Corp. v. United_States

Data Download for Consumer Product Index

You can download the data used for Consumer Product Index in “Stuck on Stupid.” Click on the text in the text box, select it with CTL-A, copy it to the clipboard with CTL-C, and paste it into a spreadsheet.

YearConsumer
Product
Index
19002500
19012500
19022600
19032700
19042700
19052700
19062700
19072800
19082700
19092700
19102800
19112800
19122900
19132970
19143010
19153040
19163270
19173840
19184510
19195180
19206000
19215360
19225020
19235110
19245120
19255250
19265300
19275200
19285130
19295130
19305000
19314560
19324090
19333880
19344010
19354110
19364150
19374300
19384220
19394160
19404200
19414410
19424880
19435180
19445270
19455390
19465850
19476690
19487210
19497140
19507210
19517780
19527950
19538010
19548050
19558020
19568140
19578430
19588660
19598730
19608870
19618960
19629060
19639170
19649290
19659450
19669720
196710000
196810420
196910980
197011630
197112150
197212540
197313320
197414790
197516140
197617070
197718180
197819560
197921780
19800
19810
19820
19830
19840
19850
19860
19870
19880
19890
19900
19910
19920
19930
19940
19950
19960
19970
19980
19990
20000
20010
20020
20030
20040
20050
20060
20070
20080
20090
20100

Consumer Price Index:
The US Census Bureau maintains a time series, E-135: Consumer Price Indexes (all items) from 1800 to 1970.
Bicentennial Edition: Historical Statistics of the United States, Colonial Times to 1970, Part 1
E. Prices and Price Indexes: Series E-135; p.211 (pdf)



Why Stuck on Stupid?

Seventy years ago the leaders of both US political parties turned away from the policies that had created an economic powerhouse we call the Roaring Twenties. For ten long years Americans suffered through wrenching economic dislocations: deflation, inflation, a four-year economic contraction, endless unemployment, mindless political experiments, and ruthless attacks on businessmen for political gain as their leaders stayed Stuck on Stupid.

Today, after a twenty-five year economic boom, Americans are once more faced with a political elite that wants to monkey with success. It wants to raise tax rates. It wants to restrict trade. It wants to increase government power.

It‘s time to look back and remind ourselves how it came to be, starting in 1929, that America got itself Stuck on Stupid. Otherwise it could happen again.

1929-1939: “A Decade that will live — in stupidity.”