Letter from America: why we should be worried

Letter from America: why we should be worried
Commentators say the most likely Republican candidate in the 2024 presidential election will be Donald Trump. (Image: Getty)
Pattrick Smellie
A few miles south of the Poughkeepsie railway station, where I'm writing this column, is the presidential museum and library of Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR), the president who saved the United States from the Great Depression.At the core of that success, in essence, was his decision to print money to refloat an economy in freefall.With 25% of the working-age population unemployed by 1932 and more than 10,000 bank failures wiping out the life savings of millions, the US was coming apart at the seams under the conservative economic prescri...

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