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The Depression Was a Crisis of Surplus, Not Scarcity
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The Depression Was a Crisis of Surplus, Not Scarcity

The Key Misunderstanding Graham Is Correcting

The dominant belief after the Great Depression was that it represented a shortage crisis.

Graham argues the opposite.

The Depression was a surplus crisis.

Too much production.
Too much capacity.
Too much stuff arriving at the wrong time, with no mechanism to absorb it.

This distinction matters more than it sounds.

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