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   KTC> The Roaring Twenties resembled the roaring 2000s under Bush. Both...
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Re: War is good for the economy

By: killthecat in POPE
Sun, 10 Jun 12 11:53 PM
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The Roaring Twenties resembled the roaring 2000s under Bush. Both ended in economic crashes.

Andrew Mellon (1855-1937) was a millionaire financier who served as Secretary of the Treasury for eleven years under Republican presidents Harding, Coolidge, and Hoover.

As Treasury Secretary, Mellon pushed through a series of large tax cuts for the wealthy, freeing huge sums of capital for reinvestment in the booming stock market. During the Roaring Twenties, Mellon was regarded as a genius of rapid economic growth; after the Great Crash, however, he was blamed by many for unwisely promoting wealth inequality and an unsustainable financial bubble.
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