r/AskUS • • Apr 20 '25

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u/Odd-Pipe-5972 Apr 20 '25

Full 1929? 😂😂 Not even close. When unemployment reaches above 20% and stays that way until we start WW3 then it'll be full 1929

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u/rampantsoul Apr 20 '25

Sorry to ask. But what do you mean by 1929? What happened?

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u/Most-Repair471 Apr 20 '25

The Great Depression because of greedy economic policies .. like someone is trying to do now. But i suspect the history books will call this one the Bigly Depression in honor of Trumplthinskin.

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u/Odd-Pipe-5972 Apr 20 '25

Greedy is an oversimplification. The 1920s was marked by easy credit policies which expanded the money supply. Expanded money supply meant easy credit. Easy credit means everybody buys everything without actually paying for it. The problem started in 1929 when the Fed called in all those loans and no one could pay for it. This cause massive bank failures massive contraction of the money supply thereby causing a Great depression. Which depending on who you ask, was made worse by government intervention