Just as important, an authentic strong
dollar policy would mean that no
dollar can be created that did not have «an equal amount» of gold / silver
in bank vaults —
in essence a 100 % gold
dollar.
He raised taxes at a time when the average family was near or
in starvation mode, he confiscated all of the nation's privately - owned gold and then promptly devalued the
dollar by 40 % (reducing the buying power of any saved
dollars by almost half overnight), he raised
bank reserve requirements numerous times (taking yet more cash out of the real economy so it could be hoarded
in vaults), he actively supported a trade war with tariffs that created massive global imbalances (some would argue ushering
in the rise to power of fascist regimes that would have had no chance
in times of prosperity), and perhaps most damning, rather than plowing most of those raised tax
dollars back into the stalled economy, he instead bought gold on the global markets for the government and sequestered it, keeping it from backing new
dollars (monetary expansion, which most understand is required to turn a recession around) and instead further crushing the economy — and not just the US economy.