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Jim Powell
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Norfolk, Virginia, The United States
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“Although the United States, with its unit banking laws, had thousands of bank failures, Canada, which permitted branch banking, didn't have a single failure during the Great Depression.”
― FDR's Folly: How Roosevelt and His New Deal Prolonged the Great Depression
― FDR's Folly: How Roosevelt and His New Deal Prolonged the Great Depression
“New Dealers always seemed to be comparing actual capitalism with ideal government. They judged capitalism by its apparent effects and government by its announced intentions”
― FDR's Folly: How Roosevelt and His New Deal Prolonged the Great Depression
― FDR's Folly: How Roosevelt and His New Deal Prolonged the Great Depression
“David Lawrence, founder of US News & World Report, warned, "Confiscation of wealth may satisfy the vengeful in us. It may sooth a retaliatory spirit. But it is the path of national suicide...There must always be the reward motive. To many people it is but another way to set goals of human ambition...When government kills the opportunity to earn, it sounds the death knell of the opportunity to serve.”
― FDR's Folly: How Roosevelt and His New Deal Prolonged the Great Depression
― FDR's Folly: How Roosevelt and His New Deal Prolonged the Great Depression
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