Welcome to francie and fitch book shop. We have a lot of helpers. I want to point out if you havent noticed, weve got cspan in the room, tony came in from iowa, taking a little break from the iowa campaigning. So youre going to be on cspan. Ill find out when, im not sure when, but ill be finding out so you can spread the word and let people know. Mary anne andre is here, awardwinning producer of documentaries, among them under the milky way. It was absolutely beautiful. And were kind of in a little fish bowl today, right . [laughter] which is great. I also want to recognize stephanie, shes going to be helping with the book signing afterwards. Well kind of try and streamline that process a little bit. How the agendas going to go is im going to youre going to get some introductions of some great people that are going to talk to you about this book, therell be a q a, and afterwards youll be able to meet the author and have your books autographed. And at that point, theres a lot of people
on the great depression families face a great depression. so there d be appropriate for us to talk about the story of norveld, which isn t it s it s a great depression story. about how to deal with the suffering that the great depression brought about and i want to first talk a little bit about that suffering so we can see that. economic epic opportunity fell pretty dramatically. this is a measure of us gross domestic product. so does anybody know what that might mean? gross domestic product have a sense dan. i would be products in the us in general not imports or exports just products in the us and not just physical products, but all economic activity. so it s it s an attempt to measure all the academic activity that s happening in the economy. and so and of course, it won t catch everything, but it catches a lot of it and it s good to compare across time and you can see that in 1929. we re over a hundred billion dollars in gross domestic product, but that started to fall pr
gross domestic product have a sense dan. i would be products in the us in general not imports or exports just products in the us and not just physical products, but all economic activity. so it s it s an attempt to measure all the academic activity that s happening in the economy. and so and of course, it won t catch everything, but it catches a lot of it and it s good to compare across time and you can see that in 1929. we re over a hundred billion dollars in gross domestic product, but that started to fall pretty dramatically so that by 1930 were below a hundred million by 1931 were below 80 million by 1932 were below 60 million and we re right about in the 50s, so we re probably cut in half gross domestic product. which means the economy shrank by by half, which is a terribly difficult thing now you re good. so so it s what does that mean though? for people ordinary people well, unemployment row is pretty dramatically. well, i think i have a pointer here that i can use so
So thered be appropriate for us to talk about the story of norveld, which isnt its its a Great Depression story. About how to deal with the suffering that the Great Depression brought about and i want to first talk a little bit about that suffering so we can see that. Economic epic opportunity fell pretty dramatically. This is a measure of us gross domestic product. So does anybody know what that might mean . Gross domestic product have a sense dan. I would be products in the us in general not imports or exports just products in the us and not just physical products, but all economic activity. So its its an attempt to measure all the academic activity thats happening in the economy. And so and of course, it wont catch everything, but it catches a lot of it and its good to compare across time and you can see that in 1929. Were over a hundred billion dollars in gross domestic product, but that started to fall pretty dramatically so that by 1930 were below a hundred million by 1931 were b
Great depression story. About how to deal with the suffering that the Great Depression brought about and i want to first talk a little bit about that suffering so we can see that. Economic epic opportunity fell pretty dramatically. This is a measure of us gross domestic product. So does anybody know what that might mean . Gross domestic product have a sense dan. I would be products in the us in general not imports or exports just products in the us and not just physical products, but all economic activity. So its its an attempt to measure all the academic activity thats happening in the economy. And so and of course, it wont catch everything, but it catches a lot of it and its good to compare across time and you can see that in 1929. Were over a hundred billion dollars in gross domestic product, but that started to fall pretty dramatically so that by 1930 were below a hundred million by 1931 were below 80 million by 1932 were below 60 million and were right about in the 50s, so were pr