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March 17, 2016

Coolidge: The Best President You Don’t Know

Filed under: Economics, History, Quotations, USA — Tags: — Nicholas @ 02:00

Published on 4 May 2015

Americans today place enormous pressure on presidents to “do something”…anything, to get the economy going. There was one president, though, Calvin Coolidge, who did “nothing” — other than shrink government. What happened? America’s economy boomed. Is there a lesson to be learned? Award-winning author, historian, and biographer Amity Shlaes thinks so.

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