A endless prosperity.

Assume that due to some wise legislation the Wall street crash of stock market in 1929,and the following depression is avoid ( the kind of laws or how are approved is not subject of this thread,just assume that).

How change the decade 1930s without economic depression?

Herbert Hoover have two terms?
FDR is still elect in some part of 30s?
The proibition is abolished?
Hitler came in power in Germany?
How evolves the American society in a timeline without depression in which 30s are the continuation without trauma of 20s?
 
The premise is difficult because the stock market crash was only one of four factors that made the Great Depression so severe. The biggest factor, in my opinion, was that railroads had saturated the country and a steel industry that fueled generations of growth would suddenly move to stasis. Enough wooden bridges had already been replaced by steel bridges and the new skyscrapers and auto factories would not pick up the slack. Investors were likewise blind-sided to the possibility that railroads and steel might not keep growing.

Another factor is that the American frontier was no longer the “relief point” for people from developed areas or other countries to seek a better life. There was no longer a frontier, just unclaimed land with little agricultural potential. Finally, there was the Dust Bowl. Short of massive public aid, little could have been done to lessen its impact.

Perhaps the public sector would expand with a massive military build-up with ports and large ships to consume steel and keep employment high. Basically, a New Deal on steroids. But not until the crisis became severe did the political thought process move in that direction.
 
The thread is not how avoid the crash and the depression.
Is about the changes that would been occurred in a timeline in which the crash and the depression are avoided.
 
The thread is not how avoid the crash and the depression.
Is about the changes that would been occurred in a timeline in which the crash and the depression are avoided.
But what happens next will also depend on how you avoid the Depression in the first place.
 
I was almost sure about these objections; is for this reason that i have i did that premise :noexpression: ....but okay.
Was the crash and the depression avoidable ( or "the great depression was unavoidable" is another mantra of this forum as " the WW-I was unavoidable" or "the axis could not win in any way the WW-II" or "No way to preserve the British Empire in any shape") ?
And which is a way to avoid creash & depression ( laws aganist financial speculation)?
 
Let's say a panic happens around 1924 and laws are passed to curtail speculation. The prevailing mindset at the time was laissez-faire business, so it would be a challenge, but not impossible. You would then need an impetus for economic expansion that would consume the resources no longer needed by the railroads for expansion. It could be something like the war machine of World War II, but there were no foreign threats to prompt it. It could be infrastructure growth for its own sake, as was the case to curb the OTL Depression in the thirties. In other words, we take the remedies that worked in OTL and apply them to the late twenties. Maybe railroad-based investors turn their efforts to hydroelectric power. Suppose we re-engineer the Missouri and lower Mississippi Rivers for electricity and flood control, as we did with the TVA. The challenge is not so much the economic growth but a mindset that did not arise until the Depression became a crisis.
 
Suppose inventor Vladimir Zworykin goes to Brigham Young University and meets Philo Farnsworth and the two work together to advance the technology of television in the twenties. In other words, the development of television comes at the time most people are getting their first radios. Without the shortage of money that characterized the Depression, television becomes more commonplace in the late thirties. In OTL, television was highly encumbered by the economy and World War II. In 1949, there were only 108 TV stations in 60 American markets, and not well distributed across the country. To make matters worse, the FCC would not license new stations from 1950 to 1952 so it could allocate channels by population. Television would blanket the country between 1953 and 1955. The unexpected impact was enormous. It gave the public a daily window to the world, to the effect radio and cinema could not. Can we predict the social implications? Well, in OTL, the advertisements, programs and game shows portrayed gleaming new appliances and cars, all without minority representation. It made Jim Crow segregation visibly obvious on a daily basis, and thus, more intolerable. We know the sixties brought civil rights movements and the fall of traditional dress codes. The thirties through the sixties represented the "short hair era" for men, will earlier television make a difference?
 
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