re: #100 Dr Lizardo

Sounds eerily similar to what Herbert Hoover did in the wake of the 1929 Crash. He started piling on tariffs (when he signed the Smoot-Hawley Act into law in 1930) and it only exacerbated an already dangerously shaky economic situation.

My understanding is that Smoot-Hawley was pretty much the final nail in the coffin.

Did he also not attempt to freeze wages, which just encouraged employers to lay off more people?