We see it with ticket prices, player wages,
hoarding of cash reserves and a refusal to spend on transfers for top quality players, always opting instead for the unproven cheap prospect.
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.
This was then reflected in 2010 with the Eurozone debt crisis with sovereigns
hoarding their
cash reserves at their central bank in case
of potential runoffs on their bonds and deposits.