During the COVID-19 pandemic, the federal government issued stimulus checks and expanded the child tax credit. These pandemic payments varied by marital status and the number of children in the household and were substantial with some families receiving several thousand dollars. We exploit this...

1 The Great Depression, New Deal, and War -- 2 Economic Progressivism Rises -- 3 The Great Crisis -- 4 A Hundred Days Later -- 5 The Big Four Bailout Regulators -- 6 Raw Alphabet Soup Deal -- 7 Crushing Dissent -- 8 Emasculating SCOTUS -- 9 In Bed with the Fed and the Red -- 10 Wartime Blues --...