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Far from empirically proving the efficacy of austerity, the Depression of 1920-21 may have provided an early, if inadvertent, model for a semi-interventionist response to economic adversity. At the very least, Harding’s policies barely affected a recovery already underway by the time he took office.
The Depression of 1920–1921 was a sharp deflationary recession in the United States, United Kingdom and other countries, beginning 14 months after the end of World War I. It lasted from January 1920 to July 1921. [1]
From the depression of 1920–1921 until the Great Depression, an era dubbed the Roaring Twenties, the economy was generally expanding. Industrial production declined in 1923–24, but on the whole this was a mild recession.
Using a newly discovered dataset of U.S. bank suspensions from 1921 to 1929, we discovered that banking panics were more common in the 1920s than had been believed. Besides identifying panics, we investigate their determinants, ing that local banking panics were more likely find
Using a newly discovered dataset of U.S. bank suspensions from 1921 to 1929, we discovered that banking panics were more common in the 1920s than had been believed. Besides identifying panics, we investigate their determinants, finding that local banking panics were more likely when fundamental economic conditions were
Nov 18, 2009 · To be sure, the 1920–1921 depression was painful. The unemployment rate peaked at 11.7 percent in 1921. But it had dropped to 6.7 percent by the following year and was down to 2.4 percent by 1923.
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In the Forgotten Depression, Grant examines what he calls “the recession that cured itself,” the short, sharp depression of 1920-21. In that downturn, the Wilson and Harding administrations and the Federal Reserve both followed policies contrary to current wisdom.
