This is missing the root cause. Why did the great depression happen? It's because of the usurious financial system. Move away from usury (aka interest), and these things instantly become a non-issue overnight. This is why the government moved away from the gold standard, they want to have their cake and eat it too. They want to rely on the unfair, immoral and parasitic usurious system, yet they want to be able to bail out the market at anytime they feel when they go too far. And guess what, this will keep happening because the fundamentals are rotten. And people still cry about the wealth gap, which will keep happening because of the broken system.