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Podcast: Creating Wealth Real Estate Investing with Jason Hartman
Episode: 2257 FBF: The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression’ with Amity Shales NY Times Bestselling Author
Description: This Flashback Friday is from episode 245, published last Feb 26, 2012. Jason interviews author, Amity Shlaes, about her book, “The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression.” Franklin D. Roosevelt spoke of the forgotten man as the man at the bottom of the economic pyramid, the poor man, the homeless man. Miss Shlaes explains that there is another forgotten man, the taxpayer, based on an algebraic description by William Graham Sumner. Jason and Miss Shlaes explore the concept that the Great Depression was man-made, that the Federal government suppressed the economy and the markets, which slowed recovery. A zomb...