The authors of this WSJ article today point out the parallels between the “recession within the Depression” of 1937-8 and our current economic troubles. The causes are remarkably similar — government meddling in the economy. Obama seems to revere FDR as a “great” president (after all, statist historians always rank him as one of the greats) and is plodding along in his steps with one policy or regulation after another that increases government power and whittles away at free enterprise.