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Economy

Bernardo de La Paz

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2. Fundamental cause of Great Depression was overproduction, especially of ag product

Reply to Eugene (Original post)

Fri May 9, 2025, 09:52 PM

May 9

Funny, now we have "ample supplies, depressed crop prices".

Plus we have Smoot-Hawley 2.0, caused by one person. S-H 1.0 greatly extended & deepened the Great Depression.

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