JEOPARDY BLOWS THE GREAT DEPRESSION:

In an episode of Jeopardy last week, one of the categories was “One-Term Presidents.”

Here was the “answer:”

Britannica: He “was blaming the depression on events abroad & predicting” his foe’s win” would only intensify the disaster”; it didn’t.

The question that Jeopardy was looking for was “Who was Herbert Hoover?

The Jeopardy fact checkers were arguably wrong.

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Flashback: FDR’s policies prolonged Depression by 7 years, UCLA economists calculate.