USA alternate late 30s.

How much different could be the United States in late 30s without great depression?
P.S. this thread is not about how is possible (or not) avoid the depression,but on a 1935-39 America scenario without depression.
 
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On one level, maybe a continuation of Laissez faire. Though I doubt a laissez faire system like that which was in place in the US during the 20's was going to lead anywhere but where it did nor especially solve the depression. There'd probably have been a system of progressive/social liberal regulation to avoid depression, probably under a President James M. Cox, which would be continued.

To nip something in the bud, an economic cycle theory supporter would probably tell you that there'd be an introduction of a New Deal no matter what, and even without the Depression, but I don't believe in cycles (mostly because I think they're thought of as magical rather than the common sense that stuff happens and people react and the government reacts).
 
It depends on the situation.

If you have a neo-FDR situation in the 20's under a James M. Cox (whether with social security and a New Deal or just regulation), I'd say you'd have a better standard of living and a more robust, sizable, and wealthy middle class.

If Laissez faire, which I think you'd need the Alien Space Bats to make not lead to the Depression, increased economic inequality, and a weaker middle class, but those with money are very well off.

Technologically, also situation. For example, is there a WW2? While I think its very much overstated that WW2 hyper leaped technology (I'm going to say that most stuff its generally credited for fostering was already out there or going to be produced anyway; same with any technological leaps credited to a Nazi run Germany), some stuff like the atomic bomb are only going to come about when they did with a world war.
But without focus on a war or rising tensions before it, or the stagnation of a Depression, technologies could indeed leap forward better than it did OTL, I would say-at least in certain sectors.
 
It depends on the situation.

If you have a neo-FDR situation in the 20's under a James M. Cox (whether with social security and a New Deal or just regulation), I'd say you'd have a better standard of living and a more robust, sizable, and wealthy middle class.

If Laissez faire, which I think you'd need the Alien Space Bats to make not lead to the Depression, increased economic inequality, and a weaker middle class, but those with money are very well off.

Technologically, also situation. For example, is there a WW2? While I think its very much overstated that WW2 hyper leaped technology (I'm going to say that most stuff its generally credited for fostering was already out there or going to be produced anyway; same with any technological leaps credited to a Nazi run Germany), some stuff like the atomic bomb are only going to come about when they did with a world war.
But without focus on a war or rising tensions before it, or the stagnation of a Depression, technologies could indeed leap forward better than it did OTL, I would say-at least in certain sectors.
Well,the first scenario(James M Cox in 20s )work for me.
So we tell that we have a 1930s timeline without depression and laissez faire).
Are the Unted States of this ATL similar like life style and affluence at the 30s Hollywood escapist movies in OTL?
 
Is this a no stock Crash & Panic of 29 TL. In which case the super exuberance of the 20's continue, and the panic in the late 30's is worse than OTL.

Or a TL where the Market crashes But the Fed manages to restore the Economy and the Panic of 29~30 is over by early 1931.
Hoover is reelected, Wiemar doesn't collapse, No Rearmament drive in the late 30's, Airplane development slower, More TV's in 1936 to watch the Olympics.

I don't see a 30's regulatory TL. Without the collapse/shock of the Great Depression, the Cult of Rugged Individualism would remain the American Ideal
 
More advanced tecnology?
Maybe television from 1938-39?
A more wealth mid class?

The Farnsworth picture tube was patented in 1929, and if the funds were there, television would take off in the early and mid thirties, perhaps competing with the conversion of movie theaters to accommodate sound.

To ward off the Great Depression in the US, you would have to change investment practices in the late twenties. The industrial commodities that fueled the Depression were railroads and steel: the railroads blanketed the country and were no longer expanding. Automobiles and skyscrapers used steel, but not enough to take up the slack left by the railroads.

Economic cycles happen not out of magic or mysticism, but because investors fail to recognize that growth can turn to stasis in the commodities that heretofore defined decades of growth. Serious depressions are generally timed two generations apart out of cause and effect: the people in control have experienced nothing but continued economic growth.
 
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