Point of View # 146

Apples to Apples

1. The Roaring Twenties

2. The Dow

3. Harding on business

4. Harding the campaigner

5. Coolidge on business

6. Coolidge breaks the Boston police strike

7. Hoover on business

8. Hoover's Electoral College vote

9. Republicans lower taxes on the rich

10. Tariffs are a regressive tax

11. Republicans raise tariff rates

12. Teapot Dome

13. The Birth of a Nation

14. Preserving American homogeneity

15. Republicans on southern European immigrants

16. The richest 5 percent

17. The top 1 percent

18. Sixty percent live in poverty

19. Gini Coefficient; A gini coefficient is a measure of how evenly, in this case,  income is spread throughout a population.  A Gini Coefficient of 0 means that everyone has the same income, and conversely, a coefficient of 1 means that one person has all the income and the remainder have none.

20. FDR in his second inaugural address

21. For a detailed discussion of the New Deal policies and their impacts see:

22. Current Republicans on business