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Final-Fan said:

I'm sorry, thread, I can't resist taking this shot:

Numbers of Banks and Bank Suspensions
Year Number as of 12-31 Suspensions
1929 24,633 659
1930 22,773 1350
1931 19,970 2293
1932 18,397 1453
1933 15,015 4000
1934 16,096 57

Data are from Table V 20-30 in Historical Statistics of The United States: Colonial Times to 1970, 1975, p. 912.

Clearly New Deal reforms had no effect on the banking crisis whatsoever. 

I think that any neutral party, upon comparing your quote "Unemployment was down slightly at the end of the '30s compared to when FDR took office, from insanely high to slightly less insanely high." to my graph, will perceive the reality of the situation.

 

So now you are "proving" your point about unemployment with statistics about...bank suspensions.  Does.not.compute.



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