Great Depression Era Propaganda Film: Selling Inflation to the People in 1933
A 1933 MGM propaganda film explaining how FDR’s inflationary policies were going to make short work of fixing the economy. It was made to be played in movie theaters across the country, and it totally made it look like the government knew what it was doing.
“And sailors will soon again be able to afford a stripper in every port! . . . What inflation has done before it will do again! . . . What a man! And what a leader! Yowzer! Happy days are here again!”
Mission accomplished, in other words.
(Via Visualizing Economics.)
Speaking of government (or pro-government) propaganda: Obama’s stimulus has just saved America from a Second Great Depression™. Whew! That was close.
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