T.Roosevelt Regulatory Legacy

Theodore Roosevelt’s election coincided with a radical shift in the Republican Party. The dawn of the Progressive Era began at the start of the 20th century as both parties sought to balance the interests of big businesses with that of workers and the environment. This was a departure from the traditional Republican Party’s onus onContinue reading “T.Roosevelt Regulatory Legacy”

FDR’s New Deal Failure

The New Deal didn’t rescue the US economy from the depths of the Great Depression – World War 2 did. FDR’s spending programmes marked the start of the New Deal era that dominated the US until the 1970s. It would take a decade of stagflation to reverse the disastrous effects that the emergence of theContinue reading “FDR’s New Deal Failure”