We Didn't "financially Engineer" Our Way Out Of The Great Depression

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http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-10-21/we-didnt-financially-engineer-our-way-out-great-depression-we-won-world-war

Excerpted from Artemis Capital Management letter to investors,

There are those who point to aggressive central banking of the late-1930s as the model for de-leveraging post-depression but this argument is highly flawed.

We didn’t financially engineer our way out of the Great Depression - we won a World War.

It’s extremely helpful in the de-leveraging process if you are the only capitalist industrial power left in the world untouched by utter and complete destruction. De-leveraging from the Great Depression had as much to do with the blood, sweat, and tears of American soldiers, the development of nuclear weapons, and the fact we were an ocean removed from the battlefield on both sides, as anything related to fiscal and monetary policy from the era.

I don’t think some investors are being radically honest when they omit this brutal truth in their analysis of late-1930s as model to argue for more quantitative easing. More quantitative easing is a great thing if you run a large risk parity fund but it will not help the American middle class.

WWII fixed the fallout from the Great Depression, the policy responses of the 30's hadn't worked, well not until the arms race started to kick in.