| − | *The [[Federal Reserve]] system had been established to prevent what actually happened. It was set up to avoid a situation in which you would have to close down banks, in which you would have a banking crisis. And yet, under the Federal Reserve system, you had the worst banking crisis in the history of the United States. There's no other example I can think of, of a government measure which produced so clearly the opposite of the results that were intended. <ref>http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/commandingheights/shared/minitext/int_miltonfriedman.html#5</ref> | + | *The [[Federal Reserve]] system had been established to prevent what actually happened. It was set up to avoid a situation in which you would have to close down banks, in which you would have a banking crisis. And yet, under the Federal Reserve system, you had the worst banking crisis in the history of the United States. There's no other example I can think of, of a government measure which produced so clearly the opposite of the results that were intended.<ref>http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/commandingheights/shared/minitext/int_miltonfriedman.html#5</ref> |