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Copy and Paste: Here is the dataset you have just charted. The table also includes nominal or chained GDP for each year charted. If you’d like the data for analysis, just copy the tab-delimited text in the textbox below (click cursor in text box, then press ctrl-A then press ctrl-C) and paste it into your spreadsheet.
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Below is a formatted version of the dataset displayed in the chart. Included is a column of nominal or chained GDP for each year charted.
Year | |
1929 | 46.6 |
1930 | 45.73 |
1931 | 42.69 |
1932 | 36.05 |
1933 | 32.22 |
1934 | 34.36 |
1935 | 39.07 |
1936 | 43.48 |
1937 | 45.68 |
1938 | 45.51 |
1939 | 49.27 |
1929-1939: “A Decade that will live — in stupidity.”
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.
— Christopher Chantrill
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