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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

Opinion

Hoover Acts to Keep Wages and Prices Up

Letting the Banks Fail

The Tariff Act of 1930

Bailing Out Businesses with the RFC

The National Industrial Recovery Act

Prosecuting Businessmen

The Social Security Act

The Wagner Act

Data Download for Gross Domestic Product

You can download the data used for Gross Domestic Product 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.

year	gdp
1900	20.7	
1901	22.4	
1902	24.2	
1903	26.1	
1904	25.8	
1905	28.9	
1906	30.9	
1907	34	
1908	30.3	
1909	32.2	
1910	33.4	
1911	34.3	
1912	37.4	
1913	39.1	
1914	36.5	
1915	38.7	
1916	49.6	
1917	59.7	
1918	75.8	
1919	78.3	
1920	88.4	
1921	73.6	
1922	73.4	
1923	85.4	
1924	87	
1925	90.6	
1926	97	
1927	95.5	
1928	97.4	
1929	103.6	
1930	91.2	
1931	76.5	
1932	58.7	
1933	56.4	
1934	66.0	
1935	73.3	
1936	83.8	
1937	91.9	
1938	86.1	
1939	92.2	
1940	101.4	
1941	126.7	
1942	161.9	
1943	198.6	
1944	219.8	
1945	223.1	
1946	222.3	
1947	244.2	
1948	269.2	
1949	267.3	
1950	293.8	
1951	339.3	
1952	358.3	
1953	379.4	
1954	380.4	
1955	414.8	
1956	437.5	
1957	461.1	
1958	467.2	
1959	506.6	
1960	526.4	
1961	544.7	
1962	567.6	
1963	598.7	
1964	640.4	
1965	687.1	
1966	752.9	
1967	811.8	
1968	866.6	
1969	948.6	
1970	1012.2	
1971	1079.9	
1972	1178.3	
1973	1307.6	
1974	1439.3	
1975	1560.7	
1976	1736.5	
1977	1974.3	
1978	2217.0	
1979	2500.7	
1980	2726.7	
1981	3054.7	
1982	3227.6	
1983	3440.7	
1984	3840.2	
1985	4141.5	
1986	4412.4	
1987	4647.1	
1988	5008.6	
1989	5400.5	
1990	5735.4	
1991	5935.1	
1992	6239.9	
1993	6575.5	
1994	6961.3	
1995	7325.8	
1996	7694.1	
1997	8182.4	
1998	8627.9	
1999	9125.3	
2000	9709.8	
2001	10057.9	
2002	10377.4	
2003	10808.6	
2004	11499.9	
2005	12237.9	
2006	13015.5	
2007	13667.5	
2008	14311.5	
2009	15027.0	
2010	15792.0

Year	Gross Domestic Product
1900	20.7
1901	22.4
1902	24.2
1903	26.1
1904	25.8
1905	28.9
1906	30.9
1907	34
1908	30.3
1909	32.2
1910	33.4
1911	34.3
1912	37.4
1913	39.1
1914	36.5
1915	38.7
1916	49.6
1917	59.7
1918	75.8
1919	78.3
1920	88.4
1921	73.6
1922	73.4
1923	85.4
1924	87
1925	90.6
1926	97
1927	95.5
1928	97.4
1929	103.6
1930	91.2
1931	76.5
1932	58.7
1933	56.4
1934	66.0
1935	73.3
1936	83.8
1937	91.9
1938	86.1
1939	92.2
1940	101.4
1941	126.7
1942	161.9
1943	198.6
1944	219.8
1945	223.1
1946	222.3
1947	244.2
1948	269.2
1949	267.3
1950	293.8
1951	339.3
1952	358.3
1953	379.4
1954	380.4
1955	414.8
1956	437.5
1957	461.1
1958	467.2
1959	506.6
1960	526.4
1961	544.7
1962	567.6
1963	598.7
1964	640.4
1965	687.1
1966	752.9
1967	811.8
1968	866.6
1969	948.6
1970	1012.2
1971	1079.9
1972	1178.3
1973	1307.6
1974	1439.3
1975	1560.7
1976	1736.5
1977	1974.3
1978	2217.0
1979	2500.7
1980	2726.7
1981	3054.7
1982	3227.6
1983	3440.7
1984	3840.2
1985	4141.5
1986	4412.4
1987	4647.1
1988	5008.6
1989	5400.5
1990	5735.4
1991	5935.1
1992	6239.9
1993	6575.5
1994	6961.3
1995	7325.8
1996	7694.1
1997	8182.4
1998	8627.9
1999	9125.3
2000	9709.8
2001	10057.9
2002	10377.4
2003	10808.6
2004	11499.9
2005	12237.9
2006	13015.5
2007	13667.5
2008	14311.5
2009	15027.0
2010	15792.0

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.”

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