What was American President Herbert Hoover’s biggest mistake when faced with the Great Depression?

What was American President Herbert Hoover’s biggest mistake when faced with the Great Depression?

Explanation:

He tried very hard to get America out of the Great Depression. He tried very creative things, and succeeded in making matters oh-so-much-worse.

He was an engineer by training, a businessman at heart, and a gifted diplomat out of need.

But his training was in economics of the business sort, and he did not understand macroeconomics. Not his fault - probably three people in the United States did.

He had heard that people who were out of work had to stay home, and often turned to drink as a solution to their depression. So he invented and promoted a ball game called Hooverball. There are films of him showing staff how to play the game, which was really quite vigorous, healthy and no-contact. Creative!

But he was very much a supply-sider and austerity-minded and protectionist that was simply wrong-headed. He was operating out of his area of expertise, and his advisors’ area of expertise, and used the wrong tools for the wrong problem.

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