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The Collapse Of Real Savings Caused The Great Depression – Analysis
By Frank Shostak
The leading monetarist, Milton Friedman, blamed the Federal Reserve System’s policies for causing the Great Depression of the 1930s. According to Friedman, the Fed failed to pump enough reserves into the banking system to prevent a collapse of the money stock. Because of this,;Friedman held;that M1, which...