Lenders During The Great Depression

In fact, the argument that the New Deal did nothing to lower the unemployment rate is simply ludicrous. The unemployment rate was about 25% in 1933, which was the height of the Great Depression. By 1937, the number had steadily decreased to 17%. By the war, the official numbers had slid into single digits . Not only did the CCC help the country regain its economic growth, it also improved the social aspects in the country.

Because of this the New Deal helped to significantly lower the unemployment levels. “The New Deal reduced unemployment from the very high level of 1933, 12,8 million, to 7.7 million in 1937” Even though there were successes to the economic side of the New Deal there were also many thing that were insignificant in other parts of the economy. For example even though unemployment fell “ As late as 1941 the unemployed still numbered six million” and it remained very high up until World War two started and the unemployment problem almost disappears. This demonstrated that unemployment was still extremely high and no huge change had been made. The New Deal also did nothing to assist the halt in technological advances in farming that causes many farm workers to be replaced by machines.

Keynes is known to be the main influence on the world’s free economies mainly in America . Keynes main theme was that contemporary capitalist economies don’t always work at their top efficiency he also believed that federal deficits of the 1930s, which was just over $3.5 billion per year, were too small to support the United States economy . The Keynes theory allowed for a greater government involvement in the nation’s economy . In 1965 the government carried out 2 stages in income-tax cuts which allowed the consumers to spend and corporations to invest and the Keynes theory used 3 tools to do this: credit policy, tax policy and budget policy . Keynes believed that the primal goal for an economy was full employment of materials, people and machines .

Edward McClelland believes the American Dream is on hold because the middle class is shrinking and it’s not from capitalism, but from the failing government. It seems like Presidents Nixon, Carter, and Reagan were actually hurting the middle class whether it be from Nixon’s answer to inflation, Carter’s leverage against unions, or Reagan’s low prices of employment or even the firing of workers on strike. In 1982, when Ronald Reagan was in office, the unemployment rate was at a rate of 10.8 percent. This high percentage rate shows no hope for the middle class to get back on their feet. To help get a better picture of what it looked like, McClelland compared the declining of workers in unions and the middle class income, and says that they fit on the same axis.

In his speech, it showed hatred and anger towards the corporations, and showed empathy for anyone who didn't get as much money as they should've (New Nationalism speech 1910). However, he was hopeful for the future. So basically, he just wanted to persuade the audience. On the other hand, Woodrow Wilson program a campaign for his presidency in 1912 that emphasized small government and competition (New Freedom speech 1913). It sought to reign in federal authority, restore competition by releasing personal energy.

The unemployment rate in America rose to 25% during great depression and in other countries the rate was up to 33%. 2. Increase in suicide rate: During depression and the market crash it is said that many people committed suicide as they lost everything they had. On the day of market crash it said that more than 10 brokers committed suicide. 3.

According to a testimony from Jennie Curtis, who said, “my father owes the Pullman company $60 at the time of his death for back rent, and the company made me, out of my small earnings, pay the rent due from my father.” Thus, Jennie Curtis was not able to mourn properly due to not being able to pay off her father 's debt. But at the same time the payments to the stockholders

His activities had generated losses totalling 827 million clams, twice the bank's available trading capital. The collapse cost another 100 million clams. Employees around the world did not receive their bonuses. Middle Earth Bank was declared insolvent on 21 April 2000, and appointed administrators began managing the finances of Middle Earth Bank Group and its subsidiaries. Another bank purchased Middle Earth Bank in 2000 for the nominal sum of 1 clam and incorporated is into itself, assuming all of Middle Earth Bank’s liabilities.

In America during 1978, the average male worker earned $48,000. In contrast, the average member of the one percent earned $390,000, or eight times more. By 2010, male US worker’s wages from the middle-classes had declined to $33,000 whilst the 1 percent earned $1.1 million, or 33 times as much. As the wealthy experience this cumulative income, middle classes’ wages stagnate or weaken. Revenues and benefits go to the wealthy at the expense of everyone else.

The First and Second New Deal were separate deals created by Franklin Roosevelt. The First New Deal was created in 1932, and the deal was set in place to try to stop the decline in the economy by using Federal government power. This however did not work and Roosevelt had to spring into action and create a second New Deal in the spring of 1935. This Second New Deal would contain federal programs that were more aggressive than the first New Deal. This New Deal, known as The Second New Deal, would allow the Works Progress Administration to provide jobs for the unemployed people in America.

What actually caused black Tuesday to happen? Part of the tantrum that caused Black Tuesday to happen was resulted from how investors used the stock market back in the early 1900’s. Back in the early 1900’s or specifically the 1920’s they didn’t have as much information as they did today, nor did they have the technological advances. Stock prices weren’t on computers, they were on tickertape machines. Machines that printed out stock prices on a slip of sheet.

Toward the end of 1861 using specie payments were not allowed, which meant that paying in gold or silver was no longer acceptable. That left people having to pay only in paper currency. To add to the matter, the Government issued the Legal Tender Act after payment in gold or coins was banned. This caused banknotes to count for most of the currency. The National Bank Act brought financial stability to the nation, but failed to solve the nation’s financial issues.

He believed that it was not the place of the federal government to tell companies how much they should pay their workers. Along with this, Reagan thought that companies would naturally raise their wages in order to keep their employees from going to other employers with higher wages. Competition between corporations would cause the salary of civilians to go up and the minimum wage would be irrelevant. Theoretically, this may work, but it failed and not create a safety net for citizens. Some workers would have no choice but to work minimum wage and this amount of money is barely possible, if not impossible, to live on.

FDR was looking forward into the future of the economy of the United States with this new policy developed and also with the creation of the FDIC or Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. 
 The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation was created in order to protect the money of the Americans in their certain choice of bank. One of the main and horrible effects of the Great Depression had on the American public was that all of the money that they had saved in back accounts were lost and couldn’t be replaced by the banks. A cruel way of loosing someones hard earnings and lifesavings. Which is why The FDIC (Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation), was created because what the FDIC did was that it protected the money of the customers if it was to ever get lost with a guarantee up to a quarter of a million.

The great depression lasted from the end of 1929 until the early 1940s. More than 15 million Americans became unemployed. The recession lasted from December 2007 to June 2009, it began with the bursting of an 8 trillion dollar housing bubble.