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Looking to the past to find an escape route from disaster

The 1930s: the American strategy

The economist JK Galbraith was a witness in the congressional hearings about the US stock market which took place in March 1955. Galbraith's book on the 1929 crash had been published a year earlier and the gathering was keen to hear what he had to say.