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:: Inauguration of Franklin D. Roosevelt [http://www.whitehouse.gov/about/presidents/franklindroosevelt/] | :: Inauguration of Franklin D. Roosevelt [http://www.whitehouse.gov/about/presidents/franklindroosevelt/] | ||
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::: The [[National Recovery Administration]] and the [[PWA|Public Works Administration]] [http://www.civics-online.org/library/formatted/texts/recovery_act.html] | ::: The [[National Recovery Administration]] and the [[PWA|Public Works Administration]] [http://www.civics-online.org/library/formatted/texts/recovery_act.html] | ||
:: [[Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation]] [http://www.fdic.gov/about/history/index.html] created | :: [[Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation]] [http://www.fdic.gov/about/history/index.html] created | ||
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: Recession of 1937 [http://www. | : Recession of 1937 [http://www.economist.com/node/13856176]: industrial production down 40 percent; unemployment rises by 4 million; stock market drops by 48 percent. | ||
Latest revision as of 23:01, 21 April 2014
- (For brief notes on the New Deal legislative measures, and institutions referred to see the Addendum subpage of the article on the New Deal [1])
1921-23
- Post-war recession [2].
1921
- Warren G Harding becomes President [3]
1922
- The Fordney-McCumber Tariff Act [4]
1923
1924
1925
- Florida land boom bubble bursts [7]
1926
1927
- Long Island meeting of central bankers to discuss UK plea to help the £ by raising the US discount rate [8].
1928
- Death of Benjamin Strong, Governor of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York [11]
- Federal Reserve Bank raises its discount rate to 5%
1929
- Herbert Hoover becomes President [12]
August
- Start of a downturn in economic activity [13]
- Federal Reserve Bank raises discount rate to 6%.
October
- The stock market crash of 1929.
- 24 Black Thursday DJIA falls by 13%
- 28 Black Monday DJIA falls by 12.8%
- 29 Black Tuesday DJIA falls by 11.7%
1930
1931
- Banking crisis, with the failure of over 1800 banks.
- Federal Reserve raises rediscount rates.
- Drought on the Great Plains - start of the 10-year dustbowl
1932
- Chicago Banking Panic [17].
- Revenue Act: income tax rates increased and allowances reduced [18].
- Reconstruction Finance Corporation [19] created
- Federal Home Loan Act [20]
- Recorded unemployment reaches 25 percent.
1933
- March
- April
- Departure from gold standard [23]
- May
- Federal Emergency Relief Act [24].
- Agricultural Adjustment Act.
- Federal Securities Act.
- June
- National Employment System Act.
- National Industrial Recovery Act[25].
- Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation [27] created
1934
- Gold Reserve Act
- President fixes $/gold rate at $35 an ounce (devalued from $20)
- Reciprocal Trade Agreement Act [28]
- Social Security Act: unemployment compensation introduced [29].
- GNP rises 7.7 percent, and unemployment falls to 21.7 percent.
1935
- GNP grows another 8.1 percent, and unemployment falls to 20.1 percent.
1936
1937
- Recession of 1937 [30]: industrial production down 40 percent; unemployment rises by 4 million; stock market drops by 48 percent.