Latest Issue. Past Issues. Very rarely, you read a afteer that inspires you to see a familiar story in an entirely different way. They amount together to a new history of the 20th century: the American century, which according to Tooze began not in but inthe year U. Yet Tooze’s perspective is anything but narrowly American. His planetary history encompasses democratization in Japan and price inflation in Denmark; the birth of the Argentine far right as well ew2 the Bolshevik seizure of power in Russia.
Lost your password? Please enter your username or email address. You will receive a link to create a new password via email. If you want to understand how the United States became the most prosperous society in the world, start with the ballpoint pen. The year was American factories were producing a warplane every five minutes, tons of steel every hour, eight aircraft carriers a month. Milton Reynolds knew nothing about this kind of heavy industrial production. Someone might be able to make a simpler and cheaper pen, Reynolds decided, by letting gravity feed the ink to the point. Milton Reynolds had never made a pen in his life. Still, he rented an indoor tennis court that had fallen into disrepair and opened Reynolds Pen Company with two employees. More than 5, shoppers stormed the store. Fifty cops had to be called in to control the crowds.
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But New Yorkers in the aftermath of war were looking for the perfect present to give returning GIs—and thanks to their wartime jobs, they all had money to spend. Before the day was out, Milton Reynolds had sold every pen. Periods of economic growth had been known in the past—the s—and they would be known again in the future, as in the Reagan years. But never had there been anything quite like what happened in the 15 years after
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This debt might have been erased, but there are still debts owed by and to Britain which date all the way from the First World War. America was neutral at the time, but such funding allowed them to help aid the war against the Nazis without getting directly involved. But because the military required so many civilian employees, contact between soldiers and civilians in occupied Germany and Austria was common. It became known as a World Power. Got it going hammer-and-tongs after the long Depression that had lasted almost till the outbreak of war. Get shares in the American arms industry. How did American industry change after World War 2?
Peter Schiff offers some interesting observationsvia Interfluidity. But to repeat the impact of World War II today would require a truly massive how did americans make money after ww2. Surely, the tremendous GDP growth created by such spending would make short work of mame so-called Great Recession. To a hoa that will surprise many, the US funded its World Acter II effort largely by raising taxes and tapping into Americans’ personal savings. Both of those avenues are nowhere near as promising today as they were in Current tax burdens are now much higher than they were before the War, so raising taxes today would be much more difficult.
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The «Victory Tax» of sharply raised income tax rates and allowed, for the first time in our nation’s history, taxes to be withheld directly from paychecks. The hikes were originally intended to be temporary but have, of course, far outlasted their purpose. It would be unlikely that Americans would accept higher taxes today to fund a real war, let alone a pretend one. That leaves savings, which was hos War’s primary source of funding. Today, we don’t have the savings to pay for our current spending, let alone any significant expansions. A related question is whether the American public would consider the offsetting required restrictions on consumption, as documented by Robert Higgs. Alex Tabarrok Email Alex Follow atabarrok.
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