Why did the New Deal ultimately reach a deadlock
Milton Friedman wrote (with Anna Schwartz) an essay on the Depression in the 1960s that they entitled âThe Great Contraction.â They placed much of the blame for this contraction on the flawed monetary policies of the Fed. But the more important failure of the New Deal was what it did not do.The only way to break the economic deadlock that had paralyzed the American economy in the 1930s was to shock it back to life by enormously expanding economic activityâquickly and decisively.ilton Friedman wrote (with Anna Schwartz) an essay on the Depression in the 1960s that they entitled âThe Great Contraction.â They placed much of the blame for this contraction on the flawed monetary policies of the Fed. But the more important failure of the New Deal was what it did not do.