Mises Daily
Author:
Douglas French
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Boom, bust and dust: That was the story of what my parents always referred to as the “dirty thirties,” or the Dust Bowl. The Great American Dust Bowl steeled the resolve of a generation of Midwesterners. The hard-earned lessons they learned have been passed on to their baby-boomer prodigy but have been forgotten. Unlike the New Orleans floods,