Capitalizing on the depression.

• Position: THE 1930S FLASHBACK - Big business' use of the depression as reason to ease regulations on them - Editorial - Brief article

November 8, 1930, editorial

The big business interests of the country, particularly those engaged in lines of activity which are to a greater or lesser degree regulated by the government, are again playing the old game of using the current depression in business as a means of breaking down regulation and paving the way for a future of huge profits and exploitation of the consuming public. In the face of one of the most severe depressions in our history, many of these big concerns continue to earn handsome profits and pay their dividends regularly. Yet...