Why did Reagan and Clinton dismantle the regulations?
That isn’t a very clear question. If I hadn’t provided you with that answer, I wouldn’t have a clue what you were asking. There was a lot of money to be made by dismantling those regulations. People made a lot of money leading up to the depression. The twenties were years of a very robust economy that finally teetered out of control. A lot of money was made by manipulation of the stock market, and that was part of what lead to the crash. Roosevelt put a lot of regulations in place that kept the economy from being manipulated, but that also meant that people couldn’t cheat to make those enormous sums anymore. There was much incentive to remove those brakes from the system. Reagan removed many of the programs put in place to prevent fence row to fence row farming, which exacerbated the dust bowl. He removed the price supports on milk, corn and other farm products that were meant to create an “ever normal harvest” and prevent feast one year, famine the next. When he did that, most family
