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Back to EpisodesEconomic Update:The Great American Purge
Season 8
Episode 24
Published 7 years, 5 months ago
Description
The program begins by explaining the economics behind the great US anti-leftist purge ("McCarthyism") after 1945. It then shows the economic impacts of that purge over the last half century. Finally, it explains how that history produced a very different political response to the crash of 2008 compared to FDR's response to 1929.