It established a newly centralized nation-state and launched it on a trajectory of economic expansion and world influence.

NPR: 'Republic of Suffering' Author Drew Gilpin Faust

If there were one warning I'd give to all who will listen, it is that U.S. federal and state tax policies are on an economic crash trajectory today just as they were in the 1930s.

WSJ: Arthur B. Laffer: Taxes, Depression, and Our Current Troubles